Dynamical relaying can yield zero time lag neuronal synchrony despite long conduction delays

doi:10.1073/pnas.0809353105

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 November 4; 105(44): 17157–17162.

doi: 10.1073/pnas.0809353105.

PMCID: PMC2575223

Neuroscience

Dynamical relaying can yield zero time lag neuronal synchrony despite long conduction delays

Raul Vicente,^a^b¹ Leonardo L. Gollo,^c Claudio R. Mirasso,^c Ingo Fischer,^d and Gordon Pipa^a^b^e^f

^aDepartment of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Deutschordenstrasse 46, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany;

^bFrankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Ruth-Moufang-Strasse 1, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany;

^cInstituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos, Universidad de las Islas Baleares-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Campus Universidad de las Islas Baleares, E-07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain;

^dSchool of Engineering and Physical Science and Joint Research Institute for Integrated Systems, Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland;

^eDepartment of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Harvard/Massachusetts Institute of Technology Division of Health Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307; and

^fDepartment of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Gray–Bigelow 4, Boston, MA 02114-2696

¹To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: raulvicente/at/mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de

Communicated by Rodolfo R. Llinás, New York University Medical Center, New York, NY, September 18, 2008.

Author contributions: R.V., L.L.G., C.R.M., I.F., and G.P. designed research; R.V., L.L.G., C.R.M., I.F., and G.P. performed research; R.V. and L.L.G. analyzed data; and R.V., L.L.G., C.R.M., I.F., and G.P. wrote the paper.

Received June 11, 2008.

Freely available online through the PNAS open access option.