A newly published research in the Vol 16, Issue 4 of Trends in Cognitive Sciences Journal titled “An oscillatory mechanism for prioritizing salient unattended stimuli” proposes an interesting mechanism of prioritizing important impulses employed in the human brain. It does not only offer a fresh point of view on how important synchronized brain-wave activity is for performing complex cognitive tasks, but also can show us the possible organizational structures that could be used to better detect a change in environment and provide fast responses to it.
A very interesting paper by Fontanini & Katz (2008) published in Neurophysiology journal proposes a model that shows how similar sensory stimuli can elicit different responses in the same organism.
Information Theory of Complex Networks: on evolution and architectural constraints paper by Sole and Valverde (2004) features a very interesting chart that shows how different types of networks relate to each other in terms of their randomness, heterogeneity, and modularity.
Bruno Latour in his talk addressing the participants of International Seminar on Network Theory (2011) offers a brief introduction to Actor-Network theory and proposes the future development of technology, software, and interfaces which would bring the intelligence of network thinking to the end-users as well as the sociologists who study their behaviour.