Woodrow L. Shew

The paper develops a method to measure proximity to criticality in complex systems using a temporal renormalization group and information theory, applying it to brain activity data to show shifts in criticality during wakefulness and sleep.

This study examines whether Parkinson's disease alters criticality in motor cortex by analyzing EEG data and finding near-critical oscillations in patients.

The paper shows that proximity to criticality in neural systems predicts learning rates and cognitive abilities across species.

The paper identifies a molecular signal that encodes within-bout sleep history by showing PKA-SP decreases exponentially during sleep and integrates sleep duration and interruption.

This study records single neuron activity in humans during emergence from propofol anesthesia, showing increased firing rates and shifts in brain activity patterns in medial temporal regions before motor response to verbal command.

This study examines how EEG scale-invariance, a measure of proximity to criticality, relates to cognitive flexibility and effort during task-switching.

The paper defines criticality in low-dimensional dynamical systems and shows it enhances information processing in neural models.

This paper shows that criticality in brain dynamics may be more prevalent than previously thought, as traditional methods can miss it by failing to detect hidden criticality in subspaces.

The paper shows that modality information is efficiently encoded in piriform cortex using a novel decoding method called Shared Covariance Decoding.

The paper reviews evidence for criticality as a computational set-point in brain function and finds a methodological source of controversy.

The paper develops a temporal renormalization group approach to assess criticality in neural activity and finds that the relaxed awake state is closest to criticality, while deep sleep and active states deviate from it.

The paper shows that awake mouse motor cortex has both a low-dimensional critical subspace and a high-dimensional desynchronized subspace, resolving a long-standing debate about cortical dynamics.

The paper shows sensory signals are encoded in low-dimensional subspaces correlated with upstream sensory regions, improving decoding accuracy and generalizing across sensory systems.

The paper shows that random variation in neuronal properties can lead to functional segregation, reinterpreting previous results as an example of this phenomenon.

The paper demonstrates that the olfactory bulb encodes ortho and retronasal odor modality through mitral cell activity and shows that synaptic inhibition affects this encoding.

The paper links scale-free cortical dynamics with scale-free behavioral dynamics in mice, showing they are directly related through a new computational model of criticality.

This study compares spiking patterns in rat olfactory bulb mitral cells under ortho- and retronasal stimulation, finding differences in firing rates and spike covariances, and develops models to explain these differences.

The paper shows that olfactory bulb mitral cells exhibit increased spiking variability at stimulus onset, contrasting with the commonly observed decrease in cortical systems.

The paper shows that single cortical neurons selectively participate in specific neuronal avalanche patterns, and this selectivity is abolished by altering excitation-inhibition balance.

This study investigates how MeCP2 disruption in rats leads to excessive inhibition, increased neuronal synchrony, and stereotyped motor behavior, suggesting an E/I imbalance underlies motor dysfunction in Rett syndrome.

The paper investigates how varying inhibitory synapse strength relative to excitatory synapses can generate a continuum of network dynamics spanning criticality to the chaotic balanced state in cortical neurons.

The paper studies visual response properties in the three-layer turtle visual cortex using extracellular recordings, finding large receptive fields, broad stimulus responsiveness, and high correlation between distant neural ensembles.