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Wiring up recurrent neural networks

Functional subsystems of the macroscale human brain connectome are mapped onto a recurrent neural network and found to perform optimally in a critical regime at the edge of chaos.

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Fig. 1: Modelling brain connectivity.

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Imam, N. Wiring up recurrent neural networks. Nat Mach Intell 3, 740–741 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-021-00391-2

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