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Amanda Minisi

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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A critical initialization for biological neural networks

Marius Pachitariu, Lin Zhong, Alexa L. Gracias, Amanda Minisi, Crystall Lopez, Carsen Stringer

The paper shows that large-scale neural recordings in mice exhibit dynamical properties similar to those of a critically normalized random symmetric matrix, suggesting a critical initialization for biological neural networks.

Nature · May 20, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience