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Reverberating neural activity is strictly defined and examined in continuous and discrete neuronal spaces with homogeneous structure. Reverberations start with a specific population of firing neurons called the initial excitation and spread out in waves of firing and refractory bands of neurons toward the periphery. The necessary and sufficient conditions for having reverberations are obtained for continuous space and discrete one-dimensional space. The excitation fronts of reverberating waves have stable shapes which depend only upon the structure of the neuronal space. The reverberatory processes in high-threshold discrete neuronal spaces show strongly nonlinear properties. Relation between reverberations and nervous functions is discussed.
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Kurokawa, T. On reverberatory processes in homogeneous neuronal spaces. Biol. Cybernetics 21, 139–144 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00337421
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