Thomas F. Varley

Living multicellular systems induce decodable spatial patterns in bacterial collectives

This study shows that bacterial collectives can encode information about nearby multicellular systems through spatial patterns and machine learning.

Effect of acute elevated magnesium on bursting activity and information-processing dynamics in cortical cultures

This study examines how elevated magnesium affects neuronal network dynamics in cortical cultures, finding increased burstiness and changes in information processing.

Purinergic signaling disrupts emergent patterns of multicellular coordination in basal Xenobots.

This study shows that purinergic signaling disrupts multi-cellular coordination in basal Xenobots, altering information flow and integration.

Evaluating oscillatory mechanisms underlying flexible neural communication in the human brain

The paper evaluates neural oscillatory mechanisms for communication in the human brain using MEG data, finding that power and phase coherence in specific frequency bands correlate with communication patterns.

Identification of brain-like complex information architectures in embryonic tissue of Xenopus laevis organoids

The paper identifies complex information architectures in Xenopus laevis organoids, suggesting they exhibit integrated, complex systems despite being non-neural.

Leveraging multivariate information for community detection in functional brain networks

This paper introduces a community detection algorithm for functional brain networks that accounts for higher-order interactions and identifies redundant modules, revealing new organizational patterns in the transmodal cortex.

Event-marked Windowed Communication: Inferring activity propagation from neural time series

This paper introduces EWC, a method to infer discrete neural communication from continuous time series data, showing it is faster and effective at capturing directional signaling.

Emergence of a synergistic scaffold in the brains of human infants

This study identifies the emergence of a synergistic scaffold in the human brain around birth, influenced by environmental factors and linked to later neurocognitive development.

Revealing non-trivial information structures in aneural biological tissues via functional connectivity

The paper uses functional connectivity networks to analyze calcium dynamics in non-neural tissues, revealing non-random structural and informational patterns post-injury.

Time-varying synergy/redundancy dominance in the human cerebral cortex

The paper analyzes time-varying synergy and redundancy dominance in fMRI BOLD signals during rest, finding that whole-brain synergy is rare and that optimized subsets show recurrent functional systems.

Co-Evolving Dynamics and Topology in a Coupled Oscillator Model of Resting Brain Function

This paper introduces a coupled oscillator model that dynamically limits brain network communication, showing it better fits empirical functional connectivity than standard models.

Information processing dynamics in neural networks of macaque cerebral cortex reflect cognitive state and behavior.

The paper analyzes information processing dynamics in macaque brain areas during a grasping task, showing dynamic inter-area processing and neuron-level reconfiguration based on cognitive demands.

Hierarchical organization of spontaneous co-fluctuations in densely-sampled individuals using fMRI

This study identifies hierarchical co-fluctuation patterns in brain activity using fMRI data from two dense-sampling studies, revealing multi-scale organization of brain systems.

Self-organization of in vitro neuronal assemblies drives to complex network topology

The paper studies how neuronal network topology evolves in vitro by analyzing electrophysiological signals from rat hippocampal cultures, finding increasing integration and complex topological features.

Fluctuations in Neural Complexity During Wakefulness Relate To Conscious Level and Cognition

This study examines fluctuations in neural complexity during wakefulness using MEG and fMRI, finding links to conscious level and cognitive performance.

Topological Analysis of Differential Effects of Ketamine and Propofol Anesthesia on Brain Dynamics

This study compares the effects of ketamine and propofol anesthesia on brain dynamics using topological analysis of electrophysiological data from macaques, finding distinct structural differences in dynamic attractors.

Differential Effects of Propofol and Ketamine on Critical Brain Dynamics

This study compares how propofol and ketamine affect brain dynamics during anaesthesia, finding propofol reduces complexity and restricts critical dynamics more than ketamine.

Serotonergic Psychedelics LSD & Psilocybin Increase theFractal Dimension of Cortical Brain Activity in Spatial and Temporal Domains

This paper shows that LSD and psilocybin increase the fractal dimension of brain activity in both spatial and temporal domains, suggesting a shift toward criticality in neural systems.

Fractal Dimension of Cortical Functional Connectivity Networks Predicts Severity in Disorders of Consciousness

The paper measures fractal dimension in brain activity to predict consciousness severity in disorders of consciousness, finding lower fractal dimensions correlate with reduced consciousness.

Consciousness & Brain Functional Complexity in Propofol Anaesthesia

The paper investigates algorithmic and process complexity measures in functional MRI data from propofol sedation, showing they correlate with sedation levels and support a complexity-based hypothesis of consciousness.