The effects of varying the timing of inputs on a neural oscillator

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-20-2006

Abstract

The gastric mill network of the crab Cancer borealis is an oscillatory neural network with frequency ∼ 0.1 Hz. Oscillations in this network require neuromodulatory synaptic inputs as well as rhythmic inputs from the faster (∼ 1 Hz) pyloric neural oscillator. We study how the frequency of the gastric mill network is determined when it receives rhythmic input from two different sources but where the timing of these inputs may differ. We find that over a certain range of the time difference one of the two rhythmic inputs plays no role what so ever in determining the network frequency, while in another range, both inputs work together to determine the frequency. The existence and stability of periodic solutions to model sets of equations are obtained analytically using geometric singular perturbation theory. The results are validated through numerical simulations. Comparisons to experiments are also presented. © 2006 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Identifier

33644912913 (Scopus)

Publication Title

SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1137/050625795

e-ISSN

15360040

ISSN

15360040

First Page

108

Last Page

139

Issue

1

Volume

5

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