Criteria for robustness of heteroclinic cycles in neural microcircuits

We introduce a test for robustness of heteroclinic cycles that appear in neural microcircuits modeled as coupled dynamical cells. Robust heteroclinic cycles (RHCs) can appear as robust attractors in Lotka-Volterra-type winnerless competition (WLC) models as well as in more general coupled and/or sym...

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Main Authors: Ashwin, Peter, Karabacak, Özkan, Nowotny, Thomas
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Springer 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3365877/