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John M. Beggs

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When Does the Brain Operate at Peak Performance?

By John M. Beggs
January 31, 2023
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The critical brain hypothesis suggests that neural networks do their best work when connections are not too weak or too strong.

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John M. Beggs is a professor of physics and neuroscience at Indiana University. His lab studies how hundreds of cortical neurons collectively transmit information and compute. His most recent book is The Cortex and the Critical Point.
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