Finite-size effects on traveling wave solutions to neural field equations

DOI10.1186/S13408-017-0048-2zbMATH Open1395.92041arXiv1606.06891OpenAlexW2470664386WikidataQ40955165 ScholiaQ40955165MaRDI QIDQ723664FDOQ723664

Authors: Eva Lang, Wilhelm Stannat 

Publication date: 24 July 2018

Published in: The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Neural field equations are used to describe the spatiotemporal evolution of the activity in a network of synaptically coupled populations of neurons in the continuum limit. Their heuristic derivation involves two approximation steps. Under the assumption that each population in the network is large, the activity is described in terms of a population average. The discrete network is then approximated by a continuum. In this article we make the two approximation steps explicit. Extending a model by Bressloff and Newby, we describe the evolution of the activity in a discrete network of finite populations by a Markov chain. In order to determine finite-size effects - deviations from the mean field limit due to the finite size of the populations in the network - we analyze the fluctuations of this Markov chain and set up an approximating system of diffusion processes. We show that a well-posed stochastic neural field equation with a noise term accounting for finite-size effects on traveling wave solutions is obtained as the strong continuum limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06891

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov chaintraveling wave solutionsfinite-size effectsneural field equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Neural biology (92C20)

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