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From: Subsampling effects in neuronal avalanche distributions recorded in vivo

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Definition of binary events from raw LFP data and detection of avalanches. (A) Sample LFP traces recorded simultaneously on 14 electrodes in monkey 1. LFPs were z-transformed with respect to pre-trial baseline. The red dots indicate binary events calculated from the LFP traces (see figure part B). (B) Algorithm for calculating binary events from the LFPs. Deflection lobes under the LFP trace are coloured in grey. Blue bars indicate the value for the area under a deflection lobe between two zero crossings. A binary event (red dot) is generated, if the absolute value of the area exceeds a threshold of 5SD of the absolute areas of deflection lobes in the baseline. (C) Avalanche definition. Binary events are concatenated in temporal bins (here: 4 ms). The avalanche size s is the total number of events in subsequent nonempty time bins. The single-step branching ratio σ' for the transition from one time bin to the next is calculated as described in the methods. The branching parameter σ is defined as the average of all single-step branching parameters. (D) Definition of the drop parameter δ for avalanche distributions with peaks at the number of sampled sites/electrodes and its multiples (N, 2N, ..). The drop delta is the difference of the value of f(s) at N and the value at this point obtained by linear extrapolation from the right (see methods).

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