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 ResearchSynchronized dynamics of cortical neurons with time-delay feedbackAlexandra S Landsman  and Ira B Schwartz  US Naval Research Laboratory, Code 6792, Nonlinear Systems Dynamics Section, Plasma Physics Division, Washington, DC 20375, USA  author email corresponding author email
Nonlinear Biomedical Physics 2007,
1:2doi:10.1186/1753-4631-1-2 Abstract
The dynamics of three mutually coupled cortical neurons with time delays in the coupling are explored numerically and analytically. The neurons are coupled in a line, with the middle neuron sending a somewhat stronger projection to the outer neurons than the feedback it receives, to model for instance the relay of a signal from primary to higher cortical areas. For a given coupling architecture, the delays introduce correlations in the time series at the time-scale of the delay. It was found that the middle neuron leads the outer ones by the delay time, while the outer neurons are synchronized with zero lag times. Synchronization is found to be highly dependent on the synaptic time constant, with faster synapses increasing both the degree of synchronization and the firing rate. Analysis shows that pre-synaptic input during the inter-spike interval stabilizes the synchronous state, even for arbitrarily weak coupling, and independent of the initial phase. The finding may be of significance to synchronization of large groups of cells in the cortex that are spatially distanced from each other. | 
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