Can homeostatic plasticity in deafferented primary auditory cortex lead to travelling waves of excitation?

Travelling waves of activity in neural circuits have been proposed as a mechanism underlying a variety of neurological disorders, including epileptic seizures, migraine auras and brain injury. The highly influential Wilson-Cowan cortical model describes the dynamics of a network of excitatory and inhibitory neurons. The Wilson-Cowan equations predict travelling waves of activity in rate-based models that have sufficiently reduced levels of …