Noise sustained waves in subexcitable media: From chemical waves to brain waves
Author(s) -
Peter Jung,
Ann Cornell-Bell,
Frank Moss,
Sándor Kádár,
J. Wang,
Kenneth Showalter
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
chaos an interdisciplinary journal of nonlinear science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.971
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1089-7682
pISSN - 1054-1500
DOI - 10.1063/1.166338
Subject(s) - neurophysiology , context (archaeology) , hippocampal formation , noise (video) , syncytium , brain waves , computer science , neuroscience , acoustics , physics , chemistry , artificial intelligence , biology , electroencephalography , paleontology , biochemistry , cell , image (mathematics)
We discuss a novel type of spatiotemporal pattern that can be observed in subexcitable media when coupled to a thermal environment. These patterns have been recently observed in several different types of systems: a subexcitable photosensitive Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction, hippocampal slices of rat brains, and astrocyte syncytium. In this paper, we introduce the basic concepts of subexcitable media, describe recent experimental observations in chemistry and neurophysiology, and put these observation into context with computer simulations. (c) 1998 American Institute of Physics.
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