Front bifurcations in an excitatory neural network

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 131-151

  Bressloff, Paul C ^a   Folias, Stefanos E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical models; Front bifurcations; Inhomogeneous media; Neural networks; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

CORTICAL MODELS; FRONT BIFURCATIONS; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; TRAVELING WAVES;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; DYNAMICS; FUNCTIONS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 16244415210     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0036139903434481     Document Type: Article

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