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AUTHOR
Rachid Behdad
Experimental study of Morris-Lecar neuron : design, coupling and interpretation
We present in this manuscript an experimental electronic neuron based on complete Morris-Lecar model without simplifications, able to become an experimental unit tool to study collective association of robust coupled neurons. The circuit design is given in details according to the ionic currents of this model. The experimental results are compared with the theoretical prediction, leading to a good agreement between them, which therefore validates the circuit. We present the different areas according to the bifurcation control parameters, the membrane capacitance and the excitation current. We have highlighted the behavior of the neuron for each parameters zone. A coupling of such neurons is…
Anti-phase wave patterns in a ring of electrically coupled oscillatory neurons
International audience; Space-time dynamics of the network system modeling collective behavior of electrically coupled nonlinear cells is investigated. The dynamics of a local cell is described by the dimensionless Morris-Lecar system. It is shown that such a system yields a special class of traveling localized collective activity so called "anti-phase wave patterns". The mechanisms of formation of the patterns are discussed and the region of their existence is obtained by using the weakly coupled oscillators theory.