Tessone C J, Ullner E, Zaikin A A, Kurths J, Toral R
Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats (IMEDEA), CSIC-Universitat de les Illes Balears, Ed. Mateu Orfila, Campus UIB, E07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2006 Oct;74(4 Pt 2):046220. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.74.046220. Epub 2006 Oct 31.
We study the control of oscillations in a system of inhibitory coupled noisy excitable and oscillatory units. Using dynamical properties of inhibition, we find regimes when the oscillations can be suppressed but the information signal of a certain frequency can be transmitted through the system. The mechanism of this phenomenon is a resonant interplay of noise and the transmission signal provided by certain value of inhibitory coupling. Analyzing a system of three or four oscillators representing neural clusters, we show that this suppression can be effectively controlled by coupling and noise amplitudes.