Gustavo Deco: The Turbulent Brain

Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF)

 

Abstract

Turbulence is a special dynamical state driving many physical systems by way of its ability to facilitate fast energy/information transfer across scales. These qualities are important for brain function, but it is currently unknown if the brain also exhibits turbulence as a fundamental organizational principle. Using large-scale neuroimaging data from 1003 healthy participants, we demonstrate both empirically and through the use of a computational whole-brain model that human brain dynamics is organized around a turbulent homogeneous isotropic functional core.

 

Organized by

Narges Chinichian /Lisa Velenosi