SYNCHRONIZATION OF COUPLED NEURAL OSCILLATORS WITH HETEROGENEOUS DELAYS.

We investigate the effects of heterogeneous delays on the coupling of two excitable neural systems. Depending upon the coupling strengths and the time delays in the mutual and self-coupling systems, the compound system exhibits different types of synchronized oscillations of variable period. We analyze this synchronization based on the interplay of the different time delays and support the numerical results by analytical findings. In addition, we elaborate on bursting-like dynamics with two competing timescales on the basis of the autocorrelation function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]