Pulsating fronts in periodically modulated neural field models.

We consider a coarse-grained neural field model for synaptic activity in spatially extended cortical tissue that possesses an underlying periodicity in its microstructure. The model is written as an integrodifferential equation with periodic modulation of a translationally invariant spatial kernel. This modulation can have a strong effect on wave propagation through the tissue, including the creation of pulsating fronts with widely varying speeds and wave-propagation failure. Here we develop a new analysis for the study of such phenomena, using two complementary techniques. The first uses linearized information from the leading edge of a traveling periodic wave to obtain wave speed estimates for pulsating fronts, and the second develops an interface description for waves in the full nonlinear model. For weak modulation and a Heaviside firing rate function the interface dynamics can be analyzed exactly and gives predictions that are in excellent agreement with direct numerical simulations. Importantly, the interface dynamics description improves on the standard homogenization calculation, which is restricted to modulation that is both fast and weak.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics

• Publication date

  2011-01-21

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Physics, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1103/PHYSREVE.83.011912PMID 21405718
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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