Methods for Parameter Identification in Oscillatory Networks

Directed information transfer in the brain is presumably arranged by coupled oscillators. A suitable model is provided by oscillatory networks. Generally, an oscillatory network is described by a set of coupled oscillators, where each component is given by an ordinary differential equation. Usually, these equations contain unknown parameters like frequency, phase or damping quantities. Furthermore, the network contains parameters describing couplings between the oscillators. A general parameter identification task is the estimation of an optimal parameter set by fitting the network solution to measured data. Thi…