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Neurodynamics: nonlinear dynamics and neurobiology
H D Abarbanel1, M I Rabinovich
1Department of Physics and Marine Physical Laboratory (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0402, USA. hdia@jacobi.ucsd.edu
Abstract:
The use of methods from contemporary nonlinear dynamics in studying neurobiology has been rather limited.Yet, nonlinear dynamics has become a practical tool for analyzing data and verifying models. This has led to productive coupling of nonlinear dynamics with experiments in neurobiology in which the neural circuits are forced with constant stimuli, with slowly varying stimuli, with periodic stimuli, and with more complex information-bearing stimuli. Analysis of these more complex stimuli of neural circuits goes to the heart of how one is to understand the encoding and transmission of information by nervous systems.