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Abstract

Mapping of spatiotemporal activity of networks into chaotic dynamics: thalamo-cortical networks.
Agnessa Babloyantz and Alain Destexhe

In: Artificial Neural Networks, Edited by Kohonen, T., Makisara, K., Simula, O. and Kangas, J. Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland, 1991, pp. 139-144.

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Abstract
Using a simple thalamo-cortical network of neurons it is shown that the spatiotemporal activity of the network may be mapped onto a deterministic chaotic dynamics if the spatially averaged network activity is considered as a time series. It is suggested that the electroencephalogram results from such an averaging over the spatiotemporal activity of millions of neurons.