Hartle H, Wackerbauer R. Transient chaos and associated system-intrinsic switching of spacetime patterns in two synaptically coupled layers of Morris-Lecar neurons.
Phys Rev E 2018;
96:032223. [PMID:
29347029 DOI:
10.1103/physreve.96.032223]
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Abstract
Spatiotemporal chaos collapses to either a rest state or a propagating pulse solution in a single layer of diffusively coupled, excitable Morris-Lecar neurons. Weak synaptic coupling of two such layers reveals system intrinsic switching of spatiotemporal activity patterns within and between the layers at irregular times. Within a layer, switching sequences include spatiotemporal chaos, erratic and regular pulse propagation, spontaneous network wide neuron activity, and rest state. A momentary substantial reduction in neuron activity in one layer can reinitiate transient spatiotemporal chaos in the other layer, which can induce a swap of spatiotemporal chaos with a pulse state between the layers. Presynaptic input maximizes the distance between propagating pulses, in contrast to pulse merging in the absence of synapses.
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