Frequency-selective response of FitzHugh-Nagumo neuron networks via changing random edges.

We consider a network of FitzHugh-Nagumo neurons; each neuron is subjected to a subthreshold periodic signal and independent Gaussian white noise. The firing pattern of the mean field changes from an internal-scale dominant pattern to an external-scale dominant one when more and more edges are added into the network. We find numerically that (a) this transition is more sensitive to random edges than to regular edges, and (b) there is a saturation length for random edges beyond which the transition is no longer sharpened. The influence of network size is also investigated.