Spots: Breathing, Drifting and Scattering in a Neural Field Model

Stephen Coombes (), Helmut Schmidt and Daniele Avitabile
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Stephen Coombes: University of Nottingham, School of Mathematical Sciences
Helmut Schmidt: University of Nottingham, School of Mathematical Sciences
Daniele Avitabile: University of Nottingham, School of Mathematical Sciences

Chapter Chapter 7 in Neural Fields, 2014, pp 187-211 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Two dimensional neural field models with short range excitation and long range inhibition can exhibit localised solutions in the form of spots. Moreover, with the inclusion of a spike frequency adaptation Adaptation current, these models can also support breathers Breathers and travelling spots. In this chapter we show how to analyse the properties of spots in a neural field model with linear spike frequency adaptation Adaptation . For a Heaviside firing rate function Firing rate function we use an interface Interface description to derive a set of four nonlinear ordinary differential equations to describe the width of a spot, and show how a stationary solution can undergo a Hopf instability leading to a branch of periodic solutions (breathers). For smooth firing rate functions we develop numerical codes for the evolution of the full space-time model and perform a numerical bifurcation analysis Bifurcation numerical of radially symmetric solutions. An amplitude equation for analysing breathing behaviour in the vicinity of the bifurcation point is determined. The condition for a drift instability Instability is also derived and a center manifold Center manifold reduction is used to describe a slowly moving spot in the vicinity of this bifurcation. This analysis is extended to cover the case of two slowly moving spots, and establishes that these will reflect from each other in a head-on collision.

Keywords: Firing Rate; Hopf Bifurcation; Anatomical Connectivity; Spike Frequency Adaptation; Center Manifold Reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-54593-1_7

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