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Periodic Forcing of Inhibition-Stabilized Networks: Nonlinear Resonances and Phase-Amplitude Coupling
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Neural Computation (2015) 27 (12): 2477–2509.
Published: 01 December 2015
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Inhibition-stabilized networks (ISNs) are neural architectures with strong positive feedback among pyramidal neurons balanced by strong negative feedback from inhibitory interneurons, a circuit element found in the hippocampus and the primary visual cortex. In their working regime, ISNs produce damped oscillations in the -range in response to inputs to the inhibitory population. In order to understand the properties of interconnected ISNs, we investigated periodic forcing of ISNs. We show that ISNs can be excited over a range of frequencies and derive properties of the resonance peaks. In particular, we studied the phase-locked solutions, the torus solutions, and the resonance peaks. Periodically forced ISNs respond with (possibly multistable) phase-locked activity, whereas networks with sustained intrinsic oscillations respond more dynamically to periodic inputs with tori. Hence, the dynamics are surprisingly rich, and phase effects alone do not adequately describe the network response. This strengthens the importance of phase-amplitude coupling as opposed to phase-phase coupling in providing multiple frequencies for multiplexing and routing information.
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Neural Computation (2009) 21 (1): 147–187.
Published: 01 January 2009
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View articletitled, Persistent Neural States: Stationary Localized Activity Patterns in Nonlinear Continuous n -Population, q -Dimensional Neural Networks
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Neural continuum networks are an important aspect of the modeling of macroscopic parts of the cortex. Two classes of such networks are considered: voltage and activity based. In both cases, our networks contain an arbitrary number, n , of interacting neuron populations. Spatial nonsymmetric connectivity functions represent cortico-cortical, local connections, and external inputs represent nonlocal connections. Sigmoidal nonlinearities model the relationship between (average) membrane potential and activity. Departing from most of the previous work in this area, we do not assume the nonlinearity to be singular, that is, represented by the discontinuous Heaviside function. Another important difference from previous work is that we relax the assumption that the domain of definition where we study these networks is infinite, that is, equal to or . We explicitly consider the biologically more relevant case of a bounded subset Ω of , a better model of a piece of cortex. The time behavior of these networks is described by systems of integro-differential equations. Using methods of functional analysis, we study the existence and uniqueness of a stationary (i.e., time-independent) solution of these equations in the case of a stationary input. These solutions can be seen as ‘persistent’; they are also sometimes called bumps . We show that under very mild assumptions on the connectivity functions and because we do not use the Heaviside function for the nonlinearities, such solutions always exist. We also give sufficient conditions on the connectivity functions for the solution to be absolutely stable, that is, independent of the initial state of the network. We then study the sensitivity of the solutions to variations of such parameters as the connectivity functions, the sigmoids, the external inputs, and, last but not least, the shape of the domain of existence Ω of the neural continuum networks. These theoretical results are illustrated and corroborated by a large number of numerical experiments in most of the cases 2 ⩽ n ⩽ 3, 2 ⩽ q ⩽ 3.