Front Matter for Volume 887

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COOPERATIVE
BEHAVIOR IN
NEURAL SYSTEMS
 Proceedings in the Series of Granada Lectures

Year Publisher ISBN/ISSN

9th 2006 AIP Conference Proceedings volume 887 978-0-7354-0390-1

8th 2005 AIP Conference Proceedings volume 779 0-7354-0266-3

7th 2002 AIP Conference Proceedings volume 661 0-7354-0121-7

6th 2000 AIP Conference Proceedings volume 574 0-7354-0013-X

5th 1998 Elsevier, Computer Physics Communications

0010-4655
volumes 121 and 122

4th 1996 Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Physics vol. 493 3-540-63086-4

3rd 1994 Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Physics vol. 448 3-540-59178-8

2nd 1992 World Scientific 981-02-1163-5

1st 1990 unpublished

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 COOPERATIVE
BEHAVIOR IN
NEURAL SYSTEMS
Ninth Granada Lectures
Granada, Spain 11-15 September 2006

EDITORS
Pedro L. Garrido
Joaqufn Marro
Joaquin J.Torres
University of Granada
Granada, Spain

All papers have been peer-reviewed

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
European Physical Society
Spanish Minister for Science and Technology
University of Granada
Regional Administration "Junta de Andalucia"
Dutch Foundation for Neural Networks

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INSTITUTE Melville, New York, 2007
2EPHYSICS A IP CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS • VOLUME 887
Editors:
Pedro L. Garrido
Joaquin Marro
Joaquin J. Torres

Institute "Carlos I" for Theoretical and Computational Physics

Faculty of Sciences
University of Granada
E-18071 Granada
Spain

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jmarro@ugr.es
jtorres@onsager.ugr.es

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 CONTENTS

Preface vii
Granada Seminar Steering Committee ix

The Brain near the Edge 1

D. R. Chialvo
Physics of Psychophysics: It is Critical to Sense 13
M. Copelli
Decision-making Mechanisms in the Brain 21
G. Deco and E. T. Rolls
The Dynamics of a Sensory Apparatus: The Case of the Auditory
System 29
J. H. E. Cartwright, D. L. Gonzalez, and O. Piro
Oscillatory Activity in Cells: Multi-stability and Hysteresis 40
J. M. A. M. Kusters, J. M. Cortes, W. P. M. van Meerwijk, D. L. Ypey,
A. P. R. Theuvenet, and C. C. A. M. Gielen
Origin and Role of Neural Signatures in Bursting Neurons 51
R. Latorre, F. B. Rodriguez, and P. Varona
Coupled Map Model for Spatio-temporal Processing in the Olfactory
Bulb 61
L. de Almeida, M. Idiart, and J. A. Quillfeldt
Map-based Neuron Networks 69
B. Ibarz, H. Cao, and M. A. F. Sanjuan
Feedback Suppression of Neural Synchrony 77
N. Tukhlina, A. Pikovsky, J. Kurths, and M. Rosenblum
Signal Detection in Networks of Spiking Neurons with Dynamical
Synapses 83
J. F. Mejias and J. J. Torres
Highly Synchronized Noise-driven Oscillatory Behavior of a
FitzHugh-Nagumo Ring with Phase-repulsive Coupling 89
G. Izus, R. Deza, and A. Sanchez
Percolation Approach to Study Connectivity in Living Neural
Networks 96
J. Soriano, I. Breskin, E. Moses, and T. Trusty
Block Information and Topology in Memory Networks 107
D. Dominguez
Information Processing with Unstable Memories 115
J. J. Torres, J. M. Cortes, and J. Marro
Autonomous Dynamics in Neural networks: The dHAN Concept and
Associative Thought Processes 129
C. Gros
Cycles in Symmetric Sequence Processing 139
F. L. Metz and W. K. Theumann
An Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory, Path Integrals and
Reinforcement Learning 149
H. J. Kappen
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Predictive Dynamical and Stochastic Systems 182
T. Ohira
Anharmonicity, Neural-like Lattices, and Fast Signal/Electric
Transmission 190
M. G. Velarde
Dynamical Effects on Familiarity Discrimination 217
J. M. Cortes, A. Greve, and M. C. W. van Rossum
Statistics and Dynamics of Attractor Networks with Inter-correlated
Patterns 224
E. Kropff
Causal Interactions and Delays in a Neuronal Ensemble 235
D. Marinazzo, M. Pellicoro, and S. Stramaglia
Bump Formations in Attractor Neural Network and Their
Application in Image Reconstruction 242
K. Koroutchev and E. Korutcheva
Nonlinear Dynamics Reconstruction with Neural Networks of Chaotic
Time-delay Communication Systems 249
S. Ortin, L. Pesquera, J. M. Gutierrez, A. Valle, and A. Cofino

Abstracts of Selected Contributions

Bosonic and Fermionic Descriptions for a Simple Nonequilibrium

Model 259
J. A. Bonachela
Analysis of Physiological Times Series (ECG) 259
J. Bragard
Altruism in the (Social) Network 260
P. Branas-Garza
Synchronization of Hindmarsh-Rose Neurons: A Numerical Study 261
R. Erichsen Jr.
The Effect of Topology on Neural Networks with Unstable Memories 261
S. Johnson
Modelling Oscillatory Pollen Tube Growth with Flow Equations 262
J. Kroger
Modelling a Counting Process with a Parametric
Additive-Multiplicative Hazard Model 262
A. M. Lara-Porras
Ising Model Driving with Spatial Uniform Noise Radomly Variying in
Time 263
F. Ramos
Chirp-evoked Potentials in a Net of Neurons 264
M. Valencia
Monte Carlo Study of Field-induced Structures in Magnetic Fluids 265
A. Zugaldia

Author Index 267

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Editors’ Preface
This volume originated at the 9th Granada Seminar, which was held at the
“Facultad de Ciencias” of the University of Granada, Spain, September 11—15,
2006, and contains the main lectures as well as a selection of contributed papers
in that conference. This is the ninth of a series of Granada Lectures; previous
volumes were published by World Scientific (Singapore 1993), by Springer Verlag
(Berlin 1995 and 1997) –Lecture Notes in Physics volumes 448 and 493–, by
Elsevier (Amsterdam 1999) –Computer Physics Communications volumes 121
and 122–, and by AIP –Conference Proceedings Series, volumes 574, 661 and
779. The Web pages at http://ergodic.ugr.es/cp/ describe these books and the
successive editions of the Seminar since 1990. These pages also contain updated
information on the next edition planned for September 2008.
The Granada Seminar is defined as a small topical conference whose peda-
gogical effort is especially aimed at young researchers. In fact, one interesting
aspect of this meeting is the opportunity given to the young scientists to present
their results and to discuss their problems with leading specialists. There were
in this edition 39 lectures, in addition to the poster contributions by students
which amount to the 37% of participants. These came from Europe (40 from
Spain and 18 from the rest of the EU and Associated States), America (10) and
other countries (3), and most of them received some sort of support from the
organization. Also remarkable is that this edition of the Granada Seminar was
coordinated with the Spanish meeting of statistical and non-linear physicists,
which produced attendance of near three hundred scientists and students during
the last half part of the combined meeting.
The 9th Granada Seminar covered the computational and mathematical
modeling of cooperative behavior in neural systems. This was selected to cele-
brate in the University of Granada the first centenary of the Nobel price award
to Santiago Ramón y Cajal. The contributed papers confirmed that Cajal’s
seminal contributions to the understanding of the brain are still at the research
forefront. It was also shown that neurosciences is a most promising field, where
many intriguing questions are presently being studied and some crucial an-
swers and paths will soon be revealed. In particular, new techniques have been
developed that are producing lots of interesting data concerning cooperative
phenomena in the central nervous system, and statistical physicists are paying
due attention to these data.
The 9th Granada Seminar was organized by the Institute “Carlos I” for The-
oretical and Computational Physics of the University of Granada, sponsored by
the European Physical Society, and financed by the Spanish Minister for Science
and Technology, project FIS2005—24364E, by the University of Granada, by the
regional administration “Junta de Andalucía”, and by the Dutch Foundation
for Neural Networks. We also wish to express gratitude to all those who have
collaborated in making the 2006 edition of the Seminar a success. In particu-
lar, we mention the remarkably high quality and friendly cooperation of invited
speakers and other participants, whose personal effort enabled us to accomplish
the goals of the Seminar, the Steering Committee’s help in designing format and
contents, and further collaboration from colleagues and students.
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 Finally, let us notice that an effort has been made by authors and editors
to offer pedagogical notes here. In particular, each topic is comprehensively
described and, eventually, some practical exercises are proposed. We try to mold
the ‘Granada Lectures’ into a series of books that help introduce the beginner
to novel advances in statistical physics and to the creative use of computers in
scientific research, as well as to serve as a work of reference for teachers, students
and researchers.
Granada, November 2006.

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GRANADA SEMINAR STEERING COMMITTE:
K. Binder Institute of Physics of Condensed Matter, University of Mainz
J. F. Fernández Institute for Materials Science
C.S.I.C. and University of Zaragoza
P. L. Garrido Institute “Carlos I” for Theoretical and Computational Physics
University of Granada
H. J. Herrmann ICA1, University of Stuttgart
H. J. Kappen Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics
University of Nijmegen
J. L. Lebowitz Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Jersey
R. de la Llave Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, Austin
M. Mareschal Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles
J. Marro Departamento de Electromagnetismo y Física de la Materia
University of Granada

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