Abstract
We report experimental observation of phase synchronization in an array of nonidentical noncoupled noisy neuronal oscillators, due to stimulation with external noise. The synchronization derives from a noise-induced qualitative change in the firing pattern of single neurons, which changes from a quasiperiodic to a bursting mode. We show that at a certain noise intensity the onsets of bursts in different neurons become synchronized, even though the number of spikes inside the bursts may vary for different neurons. We demonstrate this effect both experimentally for the electroreceptor afferents of paddlefish, and numerically for a canonical phase model, and characterize it in terms of stochastic synchronization.
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