Title
Neural 'Bubble' Dynamics Revisited.
Abstract
In this paper, we revisit the work of John G Taylor on neural 'bubble' dynamics in two-dimensional neural field models. This builds on original work of Amari in a one-dimensional setting and makes use of the fact that mathematical treatments are much simpler when the firing rate function is chosen to be a Heaviside. In this case, the dynamics of an excited or active region, defining a 'bubble', reduce to the dynamics of the boundary. The focus of John's work was on the properties of radially symmetric 'bubbles', including existence and radial stability, with applications to the theory of topographic map formation in self-organising neural networks. As well as reviewing John's work in this area, we also include some recent results that treat more general classes of perturbations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/s12559-013-9214-3
Cognitive Computation
Keywords
Field
DocType
Neural field models,Self-organisation,Bumps,Breathers
Statistical physics,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Breather,Neural fields,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Self organisation,Rate function,Perturbation (astronomy),Heaviside step function,Bubble
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
3
1866-9956
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
14
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul C. Bressloff133842.09
Stephen Coombes218418.30