Spatially structured activity in synaptically coupled neuronal networks: I. Traveling fronts and pulses

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 206-225

  Pinto, David J ^a   Ermentrout, G Bard ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical activity; Shooting method; Singular perturbation; Synaptic networks; Wave speed

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; NEURAL NETWORKS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CORTICAL ACTIVITY; SHOOTING METHOD; SYNAPTIC NETWORKS; WAVE SPEED;

INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 0036226617     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139900346453     Document Type: Article

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