Power spectrum and diffusion of the Amari neural field

DOI10.3390/SYM11020134zbMATH Open1416.92044arXiv1504.07523OpenAlexW762170355MaRDI QIDQ2003754FDOQ2003754

L. Salasnich

Publication date: 10 July 2019

Published in: Symmetry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the power spectrum of a space-time dependent neural field which describes the average membrane potential of neurons in a single layer. This neural field is modelled by a dissipative integro-differential equation, the so-called Amari equation. By considering a small perturbation with respect to a stationary and uniform configuration of the neural field we derive a linearized equation which is solved for a generic external stimulus by using the Fourier transform into wavevector-freqency domain, finding an analytical formula for the power spectrum of the neural field. In addition, after proving that for large wavelengths the linearized Amari equation is equivalent to a diffusion equation which admits space-time dependent analytical solutions, we take into account the nonlinearity of the Amari equation. We find that for large wavelengths a weak nonlinearity in the Amari equation gives rise to a reaction-diffusion equation which can be formally derived from a neural action functional by introducing a dual neural field. For some initial conditions, we discuss analytical solutions of this reaction-diffusion equation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.07523

zbMATH Keywords

reaction-diffusionneural field theorypower spectrumAmari equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural biology (92C20)

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