Scalability of Asynchronous Networks Is Limited by One-to-One Mapping between Effective Connectivity and Correlations

Sacha Jennifer van Albada; Moritz Helias; Markus Diesmann

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004490

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Scalability of Asynchronous Networks Is Limited by One-to-One Mapping between Effective Connectivity and Correlations

Sacha Jennifer van Albada ,

* E-mail: s.van.albada@fz-juelich.de

Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
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Moritz Helias,

Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany
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Markus Diesmann

Affiliations Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, Department of Physics, Faculty 1, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Scalability of Asynchronous Networks Is Limited by One-to-One Mapping between Effective Connectivity and Correlations

Sacha Jennifer van Albada,
Moritz Helias,
Markus Diesmann

Published: September 1, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004490

About the Authors

Sacha Jennifer van Albada

* E-mail: s.van.albada@fz-juelich.de

Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany

Moritz Helias

Affiliation Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany

Markus Diesmann

Affiliations Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6) and Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS-6) and JARA BRAIN Institute I, Jülich Research Centre, Jülich, Germany, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, Department of Physics, Faculty 1, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: SJvA MH MD. Wrote the paper: SJvA MH MD. Conceived and designed the study: SJvA MH MD. Developed the theory: SJvA MH MD. Wrote the simulation and analysis code: SJvA MH. Performed the simulations: SJvA MH.

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