How chaotic is the balanced state?

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue NOV, 2009, Pages

  Jahnke, Sven ^a,b   Memmesheimer, Raoul Martin ^c   Timme, Marc ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience (BCCN)   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attractor neural networks; Balanced state; Irregular activity; Local cortical circuits; Stability; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTOR NEURAL NETWORKS; BALANCED STATE; EXTERNAL INPUT; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; PERIODIC ORBITS; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS; SPIKING NEURON; SYNAPTIC RESPONSE;

CHAOS THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMICS; NEURONS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 77950502699     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.10.013.2009     Document Type: Article

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