Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Informal International Partners

• We collaborate with Jamie Sleigh (University of Auckland, New Zealand), who provides us with experimental EEG-data obtained in humans during anaesthesia (A. Hutt).

• In the collaboration with Flavio Frohlich (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), we receive experimental data measured intracranially in ferrets and analyse them on spectral properties (A. Hutt).

• The collaboration with Matthias Munk (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen) lasts for over 10 years now and provides us with experimental Local Field Potentials measured during a visuomotor task of monkeys (A. Hutt).

• The collaboration with Linghai Zhang (Lehigh University, USA) on the mathematical analysis of neural field equations led to a publication in 2013 [6] (A.Hutt).

• In the collaboration with Jeremy Lefebvre (University in Geneva), we have been working out together a novel stochastic center manifold analysis method for delayed differential equations leading to new insights into the effects of additive noise close to bifurcation points (A. Hutt).

• The collaboration with Marina Palazova and Torsten Schubert (Humboldt University Berlin) on priming effects of subliminal visual stimuli has led to a publication in 2013 [8] (A. Hutt).

• The collaboration with Peter beim Graben (Humboldt University Berlin) on recurrence data analysis stimulated us to intensify our work on meta-stable states in neural systems (A. Hutt).

• An Inria Internship proposal has been submitted on topics that will involve Pr. Motoharu Yoshida at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, to study the role of persistent firing neurons in memory and more specifically in neural network synchronization. M. Yoshida provides us with biological data that we combine with simulations to test hypotheses on memory formation (L. Buhry).

• We also collaborate with Pr. John Rinzel (New York University, USA) and Pr. LieJune Shiau (University of Houston, Texas, USA) on more theoretical approaches concerning the role intrinsic neuronal dynamics in network synchronization and brain oscillations (L. Buhry).