Characterization of periodic attractors in neural ring networks

✍ Scribed by Frank Pasemann

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 751 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0893-6080
• DOI: 10.1016/0893-6080(94)00085-z

✦ Synopsis

The paper presents a discussion of parameterized discrete dynamics of neural ring networks. For specific parameter domains stable periodic orbits coexist. Their periods and the number of orbits of a given period are determined. Even n-rings (i.e., rings with an even number of inhibitory connections) exhibit mainly stable period-n orbits. Odd n-rings display mainly stable period-2n orbits. The dynamical effects of inhibitory connections are analysed, and a characterization of attractors in terms of their ' 'firing pattern" is presented.