The Analysis of Mammalian Hearing Systems Supports the Hypothesis That Criticality Favors Neuronal Information Representation but Not Computation
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2022-04-12
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In the neighborhood of critical states, distinct materials exhibit the same physical behavior, expressed by common simple laws among measurable observables, hence rendering a more detailed analysis of the individual systems obsolete. It is a widespread view that critical states are fundamental to neuroscience and directly favor computation. We argue here that from an evolutionary point of view, critical points seem indeed to be a natural phenomenon. Using mammalian hearing as our example, we show, however, explicitly that criticality does not describe the proper computational process and thus is only indirectly related to the computation in neural systems.
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24 (4)
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540
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criticality; computation; hearing; listening