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- Title
Modeling of inhibition/excitation firing in olfactory bulb through spiking neurons.
- Authors
Valova, Iren; Gueorguieva, Natacha; Troescher, Frank; Lapteva, Oxana
- Abstract
Spiking neural systems are based on biologically inspired neural models of computation since they take into account the precise timing of spike events and therefore are suitable to analyze dynamical aspects of neuronal signal transmission. These systems gained increasing interest because they are more sophisticated than simple neuron models found in artificial neural systems; they are closer to biophysical models of neurons, synapses, and related elements and their synchronized firing of neuronal assemblies could serve the brain as a code for feature binding and pattern segmentation. The simulations are designed to exemplify certain properties of the olfactory bulb (OB) dynamics and are based on an extension of the integrate-and-fire (IF) neuron, and the idea of locally coupled excitation and inhibition cells. We introduce the background theory to making an appropriate choice of model parameters. The following two forms of connectivity offering certain computational and analytical advantages, either through symmetry or statistical properties in the study of OB dynamics have been used: Our simulations showed that the inter-neuron transmission delay controls the size of spatial variations of the input and also smoothes the network response. Our IF extended model proves to be a useful basis from which we can study more sophisticated features as complex pattern formation, and global stability and chaos of OB dynamics.
- Subjects
SENSES; NEURONS; CENTRAL nervous system; ELECTRODES; DENDRITES
- Publication
Neural Computing & Applications, 2007, Vol 16, Issue 4/5, p355
- ISSN
0941-0643
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00521-006-0060-z