Propagation of pulses in cortical networks

David Golomb

Ben-Gurion University, Department of Physiology, Be'er-Sheva, Israel

I study the propagation of traveling solitary pulses in one-dimensional cortical networks with two types of one-dimensional architectures: networks of excitatory neurons, and networks composed of both excitatory and inhibitory neurons. The network exhibits several types of propagating pulses: continuous, lurching and irregular. The continuous pulses are divided into two classes: fast and slow; the slow pulses are characterized by inhibitory neurons firing before their neighboring excitatory neurons.

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