Benedetta Mariani

University of Padua | UNIPD · Padova Neuroscience Center

Human infants acquire language with notable ease compared to adults, but the neural basis of their remarkable brain plasticity for language remains little understood. Applying a scaling analysis of neural oscillations to address this question, we show that newborns’ electrophysiological activity exhibits increased long-range temporal correlations a...

Human infants acquire language with striking ease compared to adults, but the neural basis of their remarkable brain plasticity for language remains little understood. Applying a scaling analysis of neural oscillations for the first time to address this question, we show that newborns' electrophysiological activity exhibits increased long-range tem...

Understanding the relation between the structure of brain networks and its functions is a fundamental open question. Simple models of neural activity based on real anatomical networks have proven effective in describing features of whole-brain spontaneous activity when tuned at their critical point. In this work, we show that indeed structural netw...

The critical brain hypothesis has emerged as an attractive framework to understand neuronal activity, but it is still widely debated. In this work, we analyze data from a multi-electrodes array in the rat’s cortex and we find that power-law neuronal avalanches satisfying the crackling-noise relation coexist with spatial correlations that display ty...

Understanding the relation between the structure of brain networks and its functions is a fundamental open question. Simple models of neural activity based on real anatomical networks have proven effective in describing features of whole-brain spontaneous activity when tuned at their critical point. In this work, we show that indeed structural netw...

Since its first experimental signatures, the so called “critical brain hypothesis” has been extensively studied. Yet, its actual foundations remain elusive. According to a widely accepted teleological reasoning, the brain would be poised to a critical state to optimize the mapping of the noisy and ever changing real-world inputs, thus suggesting th...

Since its first experimental signatures, the so called "critical brain hypothesis" has been extensively studied. Yet, its actual foundations remain elusive. According to a widely accepted teleological reasoning, the brain would be poised to a critical state to optimize the mapping of the noisy and ever changing real-world inputs, thus suggesting th...

The critical brain hypothesis has emerged as an attractive framework to understand the functional implications of the variability in brain activity. However, the mechanisms behind the observed emergent collective neural patterns remain unclear. Here we propose a modeling framework to reconcile apparent contrasting results. We show that the presence...