Effective phase description of noise-perturbed and noise-induced oscillations

An effective description of a general class of stochastic phase oscillators is presented. For this, the effective phase velocity is defined either by invariant probability density or via first passage times. While the first approach exhibits correct frequency and distribution density, the second one yields proper phase resetting curves. Their discrepancy is most pronounced for noise-induced oscillations and is related to non-monotonicity of the phase fluctuations

Reconstruction of a scalar voltage-based neural field network from observed time series

We present a general method for reconstruction of a network of nonlinearly coupled neural fields from the observations. A prominent example of such a system is a dynamical random neural network model studied by Sompolinsky et. al [Phys. Rev. Lett., v. 61, 259 (1988)]. We develop a technique for inferring the properties of the system from the observations of the chaotic voltages. Only the structure of the model is assumed to be known, while the nonlinear gain functions of the interactions, the matrix of the coupling constants, and the time constants of the local dynamics are reconstructed from the time series.Comment: 5 page