Biological and Physical Principles in Self-Organization of Brain
H. Kröger · AIP conference proceedings · 2007
Complexity is a widespread phenomenon in nature. The brain is a foremost example of complexity. We address the question: How does such complexity emerge in brain? Which are the biological, chemical or physical principles at work which organize the formation of complixity? In particular we address the topics (i) adaptive learning, (ii) neuron cell death and pruning of synaptic connection afterbirth, (iii) small world and scale free architecture of neural connectivity, (iv) feature maps and the Kohonen model, (v) self‐organized criticality and 1/f frequency scaling.