Selective synchronization of coupled bifurcating neurons for phase shift of background oscillation

Synchronization in coupled bifurcating neurons was studied from the view point of the selective formation of cell assembly. The bifurcating neuron is a simple chaotic neuron that exhibits chaotic inter-spike interval dynamics via the addition of sinusoidal background oscillation. In this research, we introduced the phase shift of the background oscillation and several types of phase response to the input spike sequence. Sixteen coupled bifurcating neurons with complete bidirectional coupling were numerically simulated and their synchronized behaviors were analyzed. As a result, the formation of chaotically synchronized cell assemblies for the phase shift value were observed.