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2011

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Noisy cooperative intermittent processes: From blinking quantum dots to human consciousness

Allegrini P., Paradisi P., Menicucci D., Bedini R., Gemignani A., Fronzoni L.

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We study the superposition of a non-Poisson renewal process with the presence of a superimposed Poisson noise. The non-Poisson renewals mark the passage between meta- stable states in system with self-organization. We propose methods to measure the amount of information due to the two independent processes independently, and we see that a supercial study based on the survival probabilities yield stretched-exponential relaxations. Our method is in fact able to unravel the inverse-power law relaxation of the isolated non-Poisson processes, even when noise is present. We provide examples of this behavior in system of diverse nature, from blinking nano-crystals to weak turbulence. Finally we focus our discussion on events extracted from human electroencephalograms, and we discuss their connection with emerging properties of integrated neural dynamics, i.e. consciousness.

Source: Journal of physics. Conference series (Print) 306 (2011). doi:10.1088/1742-6596/306/1/012027

Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol , Regno Unito

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@article{oai:it.cnr:prodotti:202712,
	title = {Noisy cooperative intermittent processes: From blinking quantum dots to human consciousness},
	author = {Allegrini P. and Paradisi P. and Menicucci D. and Bedini R. and Gemignani A. and Fronzoni L.},
	publisher = {Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol , Regno Unito},
	doi = {10.1088/1742-6596/306/1/012027},
	journal = {Journal of physics. Conference series (Print)},
	volume = {306},
	year = {2011}
}