TY - JOUR A1 - Schwabedal, Justus T. C. A1 - Pikovskij, Arkadij T1 - Effective phase dynamics of noise-induced oscillations in excitable systems N2 - We develop an effective description of noise-induced oscillations based on deterministic phase dynamics. The phase equation is constructed to exhibit correct frequency and distribution density of noise-induced oscillations. In the simplest one-dimensional case the effective phase equation is obtained analytically, whereas for more complex situations a simple method of data processing is suggested. As an application an effective coupling function is constructed that quantitatively describes periodically forced noise-induced oscillations. Y1 - 2010 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/11947 UR - http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevE.81.046218 SN - 1539-3755 ER -