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Synchronous tonic-to-bursting transitions in a neuronal hub motif
Rosangela Follmann1, Annabelle Shaffer2, Zachary Mobille2
1School of Information Technology, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 61790, USA.
Abstract:
We study a heterogeneous neuronal network motif where a central node (hub neuron) is connected via electrical synapses to other nodes (peripheral neurons). Our numerical simulations show that the networked neurons synchronize in three different states: (i) robust tonic, (ii) robust bursting, and (iii) tonic initially evolving to bursting through a period-doubling cascade and chaos transition. This third case displays interesting features, including the carrying on of a characteristic firing rate found in the single neuron tonic-to-bursting transition.
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