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Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0PLOS Biology

How the brain dances across critical boundaries

  • Audrey J. Sederberg1
  1. 1School of Physics and School of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Abstract

The brain’s functional connectivity dynamics have been explained by a critically tuned model, but such models miss occasional reconfigurations. A new PLOS Biology study shows that modulatory control near a critical point can account for these rare events.

The brain’s functional connectivity dynamics have been explained by a critically tuned model, but such models miss occasional reconfigurations. This Primer discusses new PLOS Biology study showing that modulatory control near a critical point can account for these rare events.

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BibTeX
@article{sederberg2026brain,
  title = {{How the brain dances across critical boundaries}},
  author = {Audrey J. Sederberg},
  journal = {PLOS Biology},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pbio.3003950},
  url = {https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003950},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - JOUR
TI  - How the brain dances across critical boundaries
AU  - Audrey J. Sederberg
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/02
JO  - PLOS Biology
DO  - 10.1371/journal.pbio.3003950
UR  - https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003950
AB  - The brain’s functional connectivity dynamics have been explained by a critically tuned model, but such models miss occasional reconfigurations. A new PLOS Biology study shows that modulatory control near a critical point can account for these rare events.  The brain’s functional connectivity dynamics have been explained by a critically tuned model, but such models miss occasional reconfigurations. This Primer discusses new PLOS Biology study showing that modulatory control near a critical point can account for these rare events.
SN  - 1545-7885
ER  -