Title :
Rate of synchrony in locally coupled chains of relaxation oscillators
Author :
Campbell, Shannon R.
Author_Institution :
Intelligent Opt. Syst., Torrance, CA, USA
Abstract :
Motivated by reports of synchronous neural activity in the brain, and the use of relaxation oscillators as models of neuronal activity, we study synchronization in chains of locally coupled relaxation oscillators. We find that the average time to synchrony for a chain of n oscillators, is proportional to np, where p is a parameter dependent value that is obtained experimentally and is observed to be less than 0.5
Keywords :
brain models; neural nets; neurophysiology; relaxation oscillators; synchronisation; brain; neural activity; neurophysiology; relaxation oscillators; synchronization; synchrony rate; Biomedical optical imaging; Brain modeling; Frequency synchronization; Information processing; Intelligent systems; Limit-cycles; Local oscillators; Neurons; Neuroscience; Optical coupling;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks, 1999. IJCNN '99. International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5529-6
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.1999.831463