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Pattern Generation by Two Coupled Time-Discrete Neural Networks with Synaptic Depression
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Neural Computation (1998) 10 (5): 1251–1275.
Published: 01 July 1998
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Numerous animal behaviors, such as locomotion in vertebrates, are produced by rhythmic contractions that alternate between two muscle groups. The neuronal networks generating such alternate rhythmic activity are generally thought to rely on pacemaker cells or well-designed circuits consisting of inhibitory and excitatory neurons. However, experiments in organotypic cultures of embryonic rat spinal cord have shown that neuronal networks with purely excitatory and random connections may oscillate due to their synaptic depression, even without pacemaker cells. In this theoretical study, we investigate what happens if two such networks are symmetrically coupled by a small number of excitatory connections. We discuss a time-discrete mean-field model describing the average activity and the average synaptic depression of the two networks. Depending on the parameter values of the depression, the oscillations will be in phase, antiphase, quasiperiodic, or phase trapped. We put forward the hypothesis that pattern generators may rely on activity-dependent tuning of synaptic depression.
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Neural Computation (1998) 10 (4): 815–819.
Published: 15 May 1998
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A recent experiment showed that neurons in the primary auditory cortex of the monkey do not change their mean firing rate during an ongoing tone stimulus. The only change was an enhanced correlation among the individual spike trains during the tone. We show that there is an easy way to extract this coherence information in the cortical cell population by projecting the spike trains through depressing synapses onto a postsynaptic neuron.