Stimulus-locked traveling waves and breathers in an excitatory neural network

SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 2067-2092

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Inhomogeneous neural media; Traveling breathers; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

INHOMOGENEOUS NEURAL MEDIA; PERTURBATION METHODS; TRAVELING BREATHERS; TRAVELING WAVES;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WAVE TRANSMISSION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 29144530269     PISSN: 00361399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/040615171     Document Type: Article

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