Amari Model

Abstract

DefinitionThe Amari neural field model (cf. (Amari 1975(cf. (Amari , 1977) provides a simple field-theoretic approach to the dynamics of neural activity in the brain. The model uses excitations and inhibitions over some distance as an effective model of mixed inhibitory and excitatory neurons with typical cortical connectivities. The model is a scalar dynamical equation for the voltage or activity u(x, t) of the form