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Stochastic Resonance in an Array of Locally-Coupled McCulloch-Pitts Neurons with Population Heterogeneity

Akira UTAGAWA, Tohru SAHASHI, Tetsuya ASAI, Yoshihito AMEMIYA

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We found a new class of stochastic resonance (SR) in a simple neural network that consists of i) photoreceptors generating nonuniform outputs for common inputs with random offsets, ii) an ensemble of noisy McCulloch-Pitts (MP) neurons each of which has random threshold values in the temporal domain, iii) local coupling connections between the photoreceptors and the MP neurons with variable receptive fields (RFs), iv) output cells, and v) local coupling connections between the MP neurons and the output cells. We calculated correlation values between the inputs and the outputs as a function of the RF size and intensities of the random components in photoreceptors and the MP neurons. We show the existence of "optimal noise intensities" of the MP neurons under the nonidentical photoreceptors and "nonzero optimal RF sizes," which indicated that optimal correlation values of this SR model were determined by two critical parameters; noise intensities (well-known) and RF sizes as a new parameter.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E92-A No.10 pp.2508-2513
Publication Date
2009/10/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E92.A.2508
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications)
Category
Nonlinear Problems

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