Activity spread and breathers induced by finite transmission speeds in two-dimensional neural fields

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 Nov;82(5 Pt 2):055701. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.055701. Epub 2010 Nov 12.

Abstract

The work studies the spatiotemporal activity propagation in a two-dimensional spatial system involving a finite transmission speed. We derive a numerical scheme in detail to integrate the corresponding evolution equation and validate the derived algorithm by a study of a spatially periodic system. Finally, the work demonstrates numerically transmission delay-induced breathers subjected to anisotropic external input.