Low-dimensional chaotic attractors in the rat brain

The existence of chaotic attractors for discrete time series, derived from the occurrences of spikes during electrophysiological recordings, was investigated. The time series included between 800 and 5200 points per analyzed record. The spike trains were recorded in the substantia nigra pars reticulata (n=13) and in the auditory thalamus (n=14). The experiments were performed on anesthetized rats during spontaneous activity and during auditory stimulation. According to standard methods of dynamical systems theory, an embedding space was constructed using delay coordinates. The embedding and correlation dimensions were computed by means of the correlation integrals. For 7 of 27 samples, a deterministic structure with a low embedding dimension (ranging between 2 and 6) and a correlation dimension between 0.14 and 3.3 could be determined. Evidence was found that the sensory stimulation may affect the chaotic behavior. Single units recorded simultaneously from the same electrode tip may display different chaotic dynamics, even with a similar time-locked response to the stimulus onset.

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