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Phase resetting and coupling of noisy neural oscillators

Bard ErmentroutContact Information and David Saunders1

(1)  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

Contact Information Bard Ermentrout
Email: bard@math.pitt.edu
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