Figure 8.
Extended analysis of the critical behavior for the recordings shown in Figs 3 and 4. All rows show the same line of analysis for different critical exponents and recordings. First column: PDF of events (size or normalized duration). Second column: Estimation of the critical exponent for different lower (Xlow) and higher (Xhigh) cut-off values using the bin size closest to the ISI. Third column: Associated p-values. Red areas suggest plausibility of scale-free hypothesis. Forth column: Dependence of critical exponents (the upper lines with errorbar) and p-values (the lower lines without errorbar) on the selected interval once we have fixed one side of the interval (for control and folate Xlow and Xhigh are fixed, respectively). Robust estimates of the exponents are characterized by high p-values and an extended regime over which their estimated value does not change significantly. We find: τcontrol = 1.65 ± 0.1, τfolate = 2.2 ± 0.2, αcontrol = 2.15 ± 0.2, and αfolate = 3.3 ± 0.4 (for the full list of critical exponents over different recordings see Fig. 5).