The property of a state, pattern, or behaviour to resist perturbations. Perturbations arise all the time in nervous systems, both from the outside due to time-varying and complex environments as well as from within due to extensive neural connectivity and concurrent and competing processes. Stability is therefore the prerequisite for a behavior to be functional and observable. In dynamical systems approaches, this property is mapped onto the mathematical concept of asymptotic stability that defines attractor states of dynamical systems. <\/p>\n
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