Effect of delay on the synchronization of weakly coupled neurons via gap junctions
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Che, Yanqiu; Zhang, Shuzhou; Wang, Jiang; Han, Chunxiao; Wei, Xile; Deng, Bin
- Source
- 2011 2nd International Conference on Intelligent Control and Information Processing Intelligent Control and Information Processing (ICICIP), 2011 2nd International Conference on. 2:1140-1143 Jul, 2011
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Robotics and Control Systems
Synchronization
Couplings
Delay effects
Oscillators
Neurons
Limit-cycles
Bifurcation
- Language
Weak electrical coupling connections are ubiquitous in neuronal system. In this paper, we examine the effect of time delays on the synchronization properties of the weakly coupled neuronal oscillators by means of phase-model reduction. The bifurcation analysis clarifies how the time delays affect the existence and stability of in-phase, anti-phase and out of phase synchronization states. The results show that time delay can promote synchronization in an efficient way.