Fig. 7

Theoretical and simulated distributions of periods of consecutive active to quiescent transitions. The simulated distribution (black) is compared with the theoretically derived probability density function (shown in red; see Eq. 13). For both distributions $\alpha =1$, $w=1$, $N=50$ and $h=1/N$. The mean difference between consecutive spikes (δt) within the simulation (green) is used to define avalanches through the binning approach described in the main text. Thus, the portion of the distribution for which the length of active to quiescent transitions are greater than this average time between consecutive spikes form the distribution of IAIs when combined with the distribution of single quiescent to active transitions