Wandering bumps in stochastic neural fields

SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 61-94

  Kilpatrick, Zachary P ^a   Ermentrout, Bard ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective diffusion; Heterogeneity; Neural field; Noise; Stationary bumps

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION; HETEROGENEITY; NEURAL FIELDS; NOISE; STATIONARY BUMPS;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; INTEGRODIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 84877602943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15360040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/120877106     Document Type: Article

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