MEASURING SYNCHRONIZATION WITH NONLINEAR EXCITABLE MEDIA.

We examine a possible utilization of the recently proposed method of signal-induced excitation waves in nonlinear excitable media as a means for the noise-tolerant detection of zero-lag phase synchronization in very noisy time series. We show that in cases, where a relatively strong noise contamination aggravates the direct application of phase-based measures of synchronization, it is nevertheless possible to detect synchronization phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]