Front propagation in stochastic neural fields

SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 708-740

  Bressloff, Paul C ^a   Webber, Matthew A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Multiplicative noise; Neural field; Stimulus locking; Traveling fronts

Indexed keywords

FRONT PROFILE; FRONT PROPAGATION; MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE; NEURAL FIELDS; ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK PROCESS; SHORT TIME SCALE; STIMULUS-LOCKING; TIME-SCALES; TRAVELING FRONT; WIENER PROCESS;

NEURAL NETWORKS; PHASE NOISE; TIME MEASUREMENT;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865701489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15360040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/110851031     Document Type: Article

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