Fig. 6: Embedded switching chimera.
A Schematic representation of the cortex of a bottlenose dolphin undergoing uni-hemispheric sleep, reproduced from ref. 59: one hemisphere is synchronized (white) and the other one is unsynchronized (gray). The state of each hemisphere can change (synchronized to unsynchronized and vice-versa) due to an external perturbation (here depicted as a gray arrow). B Embedded switching chimera from the network output: the two groups (orange and purple or light and dark gray for b/w printing) change state (synchronized to unsynchronized and vice-versa) if it receives an external pulse (gray line) otherwise it does not change the state. C Individual firing rates of the recurrent neural network before and after the pulse (gray line). D PCA of the network's firing rates before and after the pulse. We plot the 1st, the 3rd and the 5th components (dark red, turquoise and yellow or black, dark and light gray for b/w printing) vs time before and after the pulse (gray line).
