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Mechanisms for oscillations in a biological competition model
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Mechanisms for oscillations in a biological competition model

Rodica Curtu
Proceedings in applied mathematics and mechanics, Vol.7(1), pp.2030019-2030020
12/2007
DOI: 10.1002/pamm.200700331
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Abstract

A four-dimensional dynamical system that models perceptual bistability in the brain is analyzed. Two variables represent the activity of two competing neural populations and they evolve in fast time; other two variables are slow and they are associated with an intrinsic negative feedback to each population. The external stimulus strength I is the bifurcation parameter. We construct the normal form and prove that oscillations occur in the system through supercritical Hopf bifurcations: as I decreases from large to moderate values a limit cycle is born; then it disappears for lower values of I

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