Effects of synaptic heterogenity on vibrational resonance in biological neural networks

Abstract

In this study, vibrational resonance phenomena is investigated for topologies of scale-free network in excitable neural system. Effect of heterogeneity which emerges from weightening synaptic conductivity in neural network on performance of weak signal detection is studied. FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron model with electrical coupling is used as excitable system. In the result of numerical simulations; it is seen that the state of the scale-free network being unweighted or weighted, synaptic conductivity and average connectivity degree play a crucial role for determining performance of information coding of neuron population based on vibrational resonance.