Amphibian sacculus and the forced Kuramoto model with intrinsic noise and frequency dispersion

Physical Review. E
Seung JiRobijn Bruinsma

Abstract

The amphibian sacculus (AS) is an end organ that specializes in the detection of low-frequency auditory and vestibular signals. In this paper, we propose a model for the AS in the form of an array of phase oscillators with long-range coupling, subject to a steady load that suppresses spontaneous oscillations. The array is exposed to significant levels of frequency dispersion and intrinsic noise. We show that such an array can be a sensitive and robust subthreshold detector of low-frequency stimuli, though without significant frequency selectivity. The effects of intrinsic noise and frequency dispersion are contrasted. Intermediate levels of intrinsic noise greatly enhance the sensitivity through stochastic resonance. Frequency dispersion, on the other hand, only degrades detection sensitivity. However, frequency dispersion can play a useful role in terms of the suppression of spontaneous activity. As a model for the AS, the array parameters are such that the system is poised near a saddle-node bifurcation on an invariant circle. However, by a change of array parameters, the same system also can be poised near an emergent Andronov-Hopf bifurcation and thereby function as a frequency-selective detector.

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