How the brain dances across critical boundaries

Audrey J Sederberg

PLOS Biology, 2026, vol. 24, issue 9, 1-4

Abstract: The brain’s functional connectivity dynamics have been explained by a critically tuned model, but such models miss occasional reconfigurations. A new PLOS Biology study shows that modulatory control near a critical point can account for these rare events.The brain’s functional connectivity dynamics have been explained by a critically tuned model, but such models miss occasional reconfigurations. This Primer discusses new PLOS Biology study showing that modulatory control near a critical point can account for these rare events.

Date: 2026
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