On Phase Reduction and Time Period of Noisy Oscillators

We study phase reduction for noisy oscillator models by deriving a reduced order stochastic differential equation describing the phase evolution using the first and second order Phase Response Curves (PRCs). We discuss direct methods and ordinary differential equations for computing these PRCs, and derive approximate first and second moments of the time period of the oscillator models in terms of functions of the PRCs. We illustrate the theoretical results on a noisy Hopf bifurcation normal form, on a noisy Van der Pol oscillator, and on a noisy bursting neuron model.