Phase resetting and coupling of noisy neural oscillators
Bard Ermentrout1
and David Saunders1
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Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA |
Received: 3 May 2005 Revised: 19 September 2005 Accepted: 7 October 2005 Published online: 6 April 2006
Abstract A number of experimental groups have recently computed Phase Response Curves (PRCs) for neurons. There is a great deal of
noise in the data. We apply methods from stochastic nonlinear dynamics to coupled noisy phase-resetting maps and obtain the
invariant density of phase distributions. By exploiting the special structure of PRCs, we obtain some approximations for the
invariant distributions. Comparisons to Monte-Carlo simulations are made. We show how phase-dependence of the noise can move
the peak of the invariant density away from the peak expected from the analysis of the deterministic system and thus lead
to noise-induced bifurcations.
Keywords Noise - Neural oscillators - Phase resetting - Pulsatile coupling
B. Ermentrout supported in part by NIMH and NSF.
Action Editor: Wulfram Gerstner
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