Plasticity in networks of active chemical cells with pulse coupling.

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Centre for Nonlinear Chemistry, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, 14 A. Nevskogo St., Kaliningrad 236041, Russia.

Published: December 2022

A method for controlling the coupling strength is proposed for pulsed coupled active chemical micro-cells. The method is consistent with Hebb's rules. The effect of various system parameters on this "spike-timing-dependent plasticity" is studied. In addition to networks of two and three coupled active cells, the effect of this "plasticity" on the dynamic modes of a network of four pulse-coupled chemical micro-cells unidirectionally coupled in a circle is studied. It is shown that the proposed adjustment of the coupling strengths leads to spontaneous switching between network eigenmodes.

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