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Response to sub-threshold stimulus is enhanced by spatially heterogeneous activity (1005.5032v1)
Published 27 May 2010 in nlin.CD, physics.bio-ph, and q-bio.TO
Abstract: Sub-threshold stimuli cannot initiate excitations in active media, but surprisingly as we show in this paper, they can alter the time-evolution of spatially heterogeneous activity by modifying the recovery dynamics. This results in significant reduction of waveback velocity which may lead to spatial coherence, terminating all activity in the medium including spatiotemporal chaos. We analytically derive model-independent conditions for which such behavior can be observed.
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