Title :
Music and control of chaos in the brain
Author :
Bondarenko, Vladimir E. ; Yevin, Igor
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Physiol. & Biophys., SUNY Buffalo, USA
Abstract :
Recent researches revealed that music tends to reduce the degree of chaos in brain waves. For some epilepsy patients music triggers their seizures. Loskutov, Hubler, and others carried out a series of studies concerning control of deterministic chaotic systems. It turned out, that carefully chosen tiny perturbation could stabilize any of unstable periodic orbits making up a strange attractor. Computer experiments have shown a possibility to control a chaotic behavior in neural network by external periodic pulsed force or sinusoidal force. One may propose that the aim of this control is to establish coherent behavior in the brain, because many cognitive functions of the brain are related to a temporal coherence.
Keywords :
brain models; chaos; music; neural nets; neurophysiology; brain cognitive functions; brain waves; chaos control; chaos music; chaotic behavior control; deterministic chaotic systems control; epilepsy patient; external periodic pulsed force; neural network; perturbation; sinusoidal force; strange attractor; temporal coherence; unstable periodic orbits; Biological neural networks; Chaos; Computer networks; Control systems; Epilepsy; Force control; Frequency; Multiple signal classification; Neurons; Orbits;
Conference_Titel :
Physics and Control, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7939-X
DOI :
10.1109/PHYCON.2003.1236884