Forced Synchronization in Morris-lecar Neurons

نویسندگان

  • Hiroyuki Kitajima
  • Jürgen Kurths
چکیده

We investigate forced synchronization between electrically coupled Morris–Lecar neurons with class I and class II excitability through numerical bifurcation analysis. We find that class II neurons have wider parameter regions of forced synchronization. However, the bifurcation structure and patterns of spikes for class II are complicated; there exist period-doubling bifurcations, interesting two-periodic oscillations and irregular bursting spikes with high values of the coefficient of variation of the interspike interval.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • I. J. Bifurcation and Chaos

دوره 17  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007