Title :
Effect of delay on the synchronization of weakly coupled neurons via gap junctions
Author :
Che, Yanqiu ; Zhang, Shuzhou ; Wang, Jiang ; Han, Chunxiao ; Wei, Xile ; Deng, Bin
Author_Institution :
Tianjin Key Lab. of Inf. Sensing & Intell. Control, Tianjin Univ. of Technol. & Educ., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
Weak electrical coupling connections are ubiquitous in neuronal system. In this paper, we examine the effect of time delays on the synchronization properties of the weakly coupled neuronal oscillators by means of phase-model reduction. The bifurcation analysis clarifies how the time delays affect the existence and stability of in-phase, anti-phase and out of phase synchronization states. The results show that time delay can promote synchronization in an efficient way.
Keywords :
bifurcation; delay systems; neural nets; oscillators; stability; synchronisation; antiphase synchronization state; bifurcation analysis; gap junction; in-phase synchronization state; neuronal system; out-of-phase synchronization state; phase-model reduction; stability; time delay; weak electrical coupling connection; weakly coupled neuronal oscillator; Bifurcation; Couplings; Delay effects; Limit-cycles; Neurons; Oscillators; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP), 2011 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Harbin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0813-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICICIP.2011.6008432
