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Title: Endogenous field feedback promotes the detectability for exogenous electric signal in the hybrid coupled population

Journal Article · · Chaos (Woodbury, N. Y.)
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4906545· OSTI ID:22402527
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  1. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Process Measurement and Control, School of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072 (China)
  2. School of Informational Technology and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222 (China)
  3. School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin 300222 (China)

This paper presents the endogenous electric field in chemical or electrical synaptic coupled networks, aiming to study the role of endogenous field feedback in the signal propagation in neural systems. It shows that the feedback of endogenous fields to network activities can reduce the required energy of the noise and enhance the transmission of input signals in hybrid coupled populations. As a common and important nonsynaptic interactive method among neurons, particularly, the endogenous filed feedback can not only promote the detectability of exogenous weak signal in hybrid coupled neural population but also enhance the robustness of the detectability against noise. Furthermore, with the increasing of field coupling strengths, the endogenous field feedback is conductive to the stochastic resonance by facilitating the transition of cluster activities from the no spiking to spiking regions. Distinct from synaptic coupling, the endogenous field feedback can play a role as internal driving force to boost the population activities, which is similar to the noise. Thus, it can help to transmit exogenous weak signals within the network in the absence of noise drive via the stochastic-like resonance.

OSTI ID:
22402527
Journal Information:
Chaos (Woodbury, N. Y.), Vol. 25, Issue 1; Other Information: (c) 2015 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1054-1500
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English