Mathematical frameworks for oscillatory network dynamics in neuroscience

P Ashwin, S Coombes, R Nicks - The Journal of Mathematical …, 2016 - Springer
The tools of weakly coupled phase oscillator theory have had a profound impact on the
neuroscience community, providing insight into a variety of network behaviours ranging from …

[HTML][HTML] Network attractors and nonlinear dynamics of neural computation

P Ashwin, M Fadera, C Postlethwaite - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2024 - Elsevier
The importance of understanding the nonlinear dynamics of neural systems, and the relation
to cognitive systems more generally, has been recognised for a long time. Approaches that …

Behavior genetics and postgenomics

E Charney - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2012 - cambridge.org
The science of genetics is undergoing a paradigm shift. Recent discoveries, including the
activity of retrotransposons, the extent of copy number variations, somatic and chromosomal …

Relational developmental systems: A paradigm for developmental science in the postgenomic era

WF Overton, RM Lerner - Behavioral and brain Sciences, 2012 - search.proquest.com
This commentary argues that the anomalies suffered by the population behavior genetics
paradigm are more widespread than suggested by Charney, including many made in the …

Dynamical criticality during induction of anesthesia in human ECoG recordings

LM Alonso, A Proekt, TH Schwartz, KO Pryor… - Frontiers in neural …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
In this work we analyze electro-corticography (ECoG) recordings in human subjects during
induction of anesthesia with propofol. We hypothesize that the decrease in responsiveness …

Heteroclinic networks for brain dynamics

H Meyer-Ortmanns - Frontiers in Network Physiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Heteroclinic networks are a mathematical concept in dynamic systems theory that is suited to
describe metastable states and switching events in brain dynamics. The framework is …

On designing heteroclinic networks from graphs

P Ashwin, C Postlethwaite - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2013 - Elsevier
Robust heteroclinic networks are invariant sets that can appear as attractors in symmetrically
coupled or otherwise constrained dynamical systems. These networks may have a …

Metastability demystified—the foundational past, the pragmatic present, and the potential future

F Hancock, FE Rosas, M Zhang, PAM Mediano… - 2023 - preprints.org
Healthy brain functioning depends on balancing stable integration between brain areas for
effective coordinated functioning, with bursts of desynchronisation to allow subsystems to …

Computation of balanced equivalence relations and their lattice for a coupled cell network

H Kamei, PJA Cock - SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 2013 - SIAM
A coupled cell network describes interacting (coupled) individual systems (cells). As in
networks from real applications, coupled cell networks can represent inhomogeneous …

Singular cycles and chaos in a new class of 3D three-zone piecewise affine systems

K Lu, Q Yang, G Chen - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
It is a great challenge to detect singular cycles and chaos in dynamical systems with multiple
discontinuous boundaries. This paper takes the challenge to investigate the coexistence of …