Abstract
The idealisation of neuronal pulses as $\delta$-spikes is a convenient approach in neuroscience but can sometimes lead to erroneous conclusions. We investigate the effect of a finite pulse-width on the dynamics of balanced neuronal networks. In particular, we study two populations of identical excitatory and inhibitory neurons in a random network of phase oscillators coupled through exponential pulses with different widths. We consider three coupling functions, inspired by leaky integrate-and-fire neurons with delay and type-I phase-response curves. By exploring the role of the pulse-widths for different coupling strengths we find a robust collective irregular dynamics, which collapses onto a fully synchronous regime if the inhibitory pulses are sufficiently wider than the excitatory ones. The transition to synchrony is accompanied by hysteretic phenomena (i.e. the co-existence of collective irregular and synchronous dynamics). Our numerical results are supported by a detailed scaling and stability analysis of the fully synchronous solution. A conjectured first-order phase transition emerging for $\delta$-spikes is smoothed out for finite-width pulses.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 043135 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Chaos |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 23 Apr 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Open Access via the AIP AgreementACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Afifurrahman was supported by the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia through the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP) (Grant No. PRJ-2823/LPDP/2015).
Keywords
- q-bio.NC
- math.DS
- nlin.AO