Dr RACHEL NICKS Rachel.Nicks@nottingham.ac.uk
Assistant Professor
Understanding sensory induced hallucinations: From neural fields to amplitude equations
Nicks, Rachel; Cocks, Abigail; Avitabile, Daniele; Johnston, Alan; Coombes, Stephen
Authors
Abigail Cocks
Daniele Avitabile
Professor Alan Johnston Alan.Johnston@nottingham.ac.uk
Professor of Psychology
Professor STEPHEN COOMBES STEPHEN.COOMBES@NOTTINGHAM.AC.UK
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Abstract
Explorations of visual hallucinations, and in particular those of Billock and Tsou [V. A. Billock and B. H. Tsou, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 104 (2007), pp. 8490-8495], show that annular rings with a background flicker can induce visual hallucinations in humans that take the form of radial fan shapes. The well-known retino-cortical map tells us that the corresponding patterns of neural activity in the primary visual cortex for rings and arms in the retina are orthogonal stripe patterns. The implication is that cortical forcing by spatially periodic input can excite orthogonal modes of neural activity. Here we show that a simple scalar neural field model of primary visual cortex with state-dependent spatial forcing is capable of modeling this phenomenon. Moreover, we show that this occurs most robustly when the spatial forcing has a 2:1 resonance with modes that would otherwise be excited by a Turing instability. By utilizing a weakly nonlinear multiple-scales analysis we determine the relevant amplitude equations for uncovering the parameter regimes which favor the excitation of patterns orthogonal to sensory drive. In combination with direct numerical simulations we use this approach to shed further light on the original psychophysical observations of Billock and Tsou.
Citation
Nicks, R., Cocks, A., Avitabile, D., Johnston, A., & Coombes, S. (2021). Understanding sensory induced hallucinations: From neural fields to amplitude equations. SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems, 20(4), 1683-1714. https://doi.org/10.1137/20M1366885
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Jun 20, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Oct 4, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2021-01 |
Deposit Date | Jul 1, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 22, 2021 |
Journal | SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems |
Print ISSN | 1536-0040 |
Electronic ISSN | 1536-0040 |
Publisher | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 20 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 1683-1714 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1137/20M1366885 |
Keywords | Visual hallucinations; Neural field model; Spatially forced pattern forming system; Amplitude |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5750894 |
Publisher URL | https://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/20M1366885 |
Additional Information | Understanding Sensory Induced Hallucinations: From Neural Fields to Amplitude Equations, Rachel Nicks, Abigail Cocks, Daniele Avitabile, Alan Johnston, and Stephen Coombes, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 2021 20:4, 1683-1714 |
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