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Status: Supported ×Keyword: excitation-inhibition balance ×Clear all

2 claims from 2 papers

1. Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function

   Dynamics of Sparsely Connected Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory Spiking Neurons

   Brunel · Journal of Computational Neuroscience · 2000

   Brunel analyses sparsely connected networks of excitatory and inhibitory integrate-and-fire neurons, mapping their states, two kinds of oscillation, and finite size effects in the asynchronous state.

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   1. Supported · 71%In analysed models of sparsely connected excitatory and inhibitory neurons, networks show synchronous, asynchronous and oscillating states, and can switch between them.“The analysis reveals a rich repertoire of states, including synchronous states in which neurons fire regularly; asynchronous states with stationary global activity and very irregular individual cell activity; and states in which the global activity oscillates but individual cells fire irregularly,…”

2. Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function

   A reanalysis of “Two types of asynchronous activity in networks of excitatory and inhibitory spiking neurons”

   Engelken, Farkhooi, Hansel, van Vreeswijk and Wolf · F1000Research · 2016

   The authors re-examined spiking and matched rate networks and report that the spiking network shows none of the signs of chaotic instability seen in the rate network.

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   1. Supported · 71%In the spiking network, autocorrelation timescales did not depend on coupling strength, and rate deviations from small input perturbations decayed quickly.“In the spiking network, we found in contrast that the timescale of the autocorrelations is insensitive to the coupling strength and that rate deviations resulting from small input perturbations rapidly decay.”