Anticipating the Response of Excitable Systems Driven by Random Forcing

Year: 2003

Authors: Ciszak M., Calvo O., Masoller C., Mirasso C.R., Toral R.

Autors Affiliation: Departament de Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, E-07122, Spain; Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados, CSIC-UIB, Edificio Mateu Orfila, Campus UIB, Palma de Mallorca, E-07122, Spain; Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Igua, 4225-11400, Uruguay

Abstract: We study the regime of anticipated synchronization in unidirectionally coupled model neurons subject to a common external aperiodic forcing that makes their behavior unpredictable. We show numerically and by analog hardware electronic circuits that, under appropriate coupling conditions, the pulses fired by the slave neuron anticipate (i.e., predict) the pulses fired by the master neuron. This anticipated synchronization occurs even when the common external forcing is white noise.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 90 (20)      Pages from: 204102-1  to: 204102-4

KeyWords: Biology; Chaos theory; Computer simulation; Mathematical models; Networks (circuits); Oscillators (electronic); Random processes; White noise, Autonomous dynamical systems; Chaotic dynamics; Excitable systems; Neuron; Random forcing, Dynamics, action potential; biological model; computer simulation; nonlinear system; physiology; sensory nerve cell; synaptic transmission, Action Potentials; Computer Simulation; Models, Neurological; Neurons, Afferent; Nonlinear Dynamics; Synaptic Transmission
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.204102