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Title

Stochastic synchronization of neurons: the topological impacts

Authors

Saurabh Kumar Sharma, Md. Zubbair Malik*, R.K. Brojen Singh*

 

Affiliation

School of Computational & Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India

 

Email

Zubair.bioinfo@gmail.com

 

Article Type

Hypothesis

 

Date

Received October 24, 2018; Revised November 17, 2018; Accepted November 18, 2018; Published December 9, 2018

 

Abstract

Cross-talk among coupled stochastic Hindmarsh Rose (HR) neurons is significantly affected by the topology of the neurons organization. If the coupled stochastic HR neurons are arranged in the form of ring topology with odd number of neurons, the neurons are in anti-phase synchronization with homogeneous distribution of phase ordering of the oscillators. On the other hand, if the coupled HR oscillators are arranged in the ring topology with even number of oscillators, the oscillators are formed into two groups which are anti-phase synchronized, but all the oscillators in each group are in in-phase synchronization. Synchronization of the HR oscillators due to coupling in all topological arrangements is affected by the noise. However, noise can induce optimal coherence of the cross-talked oscillators at a particular value at which signal processing is the most favorable with amplified signal, the phenomenon known as stochastic resonance.

 

Keywords

neurons organization, Hindmarsh–Rose, Synchronization, amplified signal

 

Citation

Sharma et al. Bioinformation 14(9): 504-510 (2018)

 

Edited by

P Kangueane

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.