Mind-to-mind heteroclinic coordination: model of sequential episodic memory initiation

DOI10.1063/1.5023692zbMATH Open1414.37035arXiv1801.09424OpenAlexW2785787070WikidataQ88952716 ScholiaQ88952716MaRDI QIDQ4575488FDOQ4575488

Valentin Afraimovich, M. I. Rabinovich, Michael A. Zaks

Publication date: 13 July 2018

Published in: Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Retrieval of episodic memory is a dynamical process in the large scale brain networks. In social groups, the neural patterns, associated to specific events directly experienced by single members, are encoded, recalled and shared by all participants. Here we construct and study the dynamical model for the formation and maintaining of episodic memory in small ensembles of interacting brains. We prove that the unconventional dynamical attractor of this process - the nonsmooth heteroclinic torus - is structurally stable within the Lotka-Volterra-like sets of equations. Dynamics on this torus combines absence of chaos with asymptotic instability of every separate trajectory; its adequate quantitative characteristics are length-related Lyapunov exponents. Variation of the coupling strength between the participants results in different types of sequential switching between metastable states; we interpret them as stages in formation and modification of the episodic memory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.09424

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zbMATH Keywords

heteroclinic cyclesinvariant torusepisodic memorydynamical attractorLotka-Volterra dynamicssequential switching

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamical systems in biology (37N25) Systems biology, networks (92C42) Quasi-periodic motions and invariant tori for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K43) Homoclinic and heteroclinic trajectories for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K44)

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