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Schlagwörter:
Action Potentials/physiology
Animals
Fishes/physiology
Grasshoppers/physiology
*Models, Neurological
Nerve Net/*physiology
Neurons/*physiology
Olfactory Pathways/physiology
Synapses/physiology
Zusammenfassung:
Following studies of olfactory processing in insects and fish, we investigate neural networks whose dynamics in phase space is represented by orbits near the heteroclinic connections between saddle regions (fixed points or limit cycles). These networks encode input information as trajectories along the heteroclinic connections. If there are N neurons in the network, the capacity is approximately e(N-1)!, i.e., much larger than that of most traditional network structures. We show that a small winnerless competition network composed of FitzHugh-Nagumo spiking neurons efficiently transforms input information into a spatiotemporal output.
