Spatiotemporal pattern formation in two-dimensional neural circuits: Roles of refractoriness and noise

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-13

  Gong, Pulin ^a,b   Loi, S T C ^a   Robinson, P A ^a,b   Yang, C Y J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Noise; Refractoriness; Spatiotemporal pattern formation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; NETWORK MODELS; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NEURAL CIRCUITS; NEURAL FIRING; NEURAL NETWORK MODEL; NEURAL SYSTEMS; NOISE; OSCILLATING PATTERN; REAL NEURAL SYSTEMS; REFRACTORINESS; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ORDER; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; SPIKE TIMING; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; WAVE PATTERNS;

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; NEURONS;

MOLECULAR PHYSICS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; NERVE CELL; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURONS; NOISE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84872894283     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: 14320770     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-012-0518-2     Document Type: Article

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