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- Title
Input normalization by global feedforward inhibition expands cortical dynamic range.
- Authors
Pouille, Frédéric; Marin-Burgin, Antonia; Adesnik, Hillel; Atallah, Bassam V; Scanziani, Massimo
- Abstract
The cortex is sensitive to weak stimuli, but responds to stronger inputs without saturating. The mechanisms that enable this wide range of operation are not fully understood. We found that the amplitude of excitatory synaptic currents necessary to fire rodent pyramidal cells, the threshold excitatory current, increased with stimulus strength. Consequently, the relative contribution of individual afferents in firing a neuron was inversely proportional to the total number of active afferents. Feedforward inhibition, acting homogeneously across pyramidal cells, ensured that threshold excitatory currents increased with stimulus strength. In contrast, heterogeneities in the distribution of excitatory currents in the neuronal population determined the specific set of pyramidal cells recruited. Together, these mechanisms expand the range of afferent input strengths that neuronal populations can represent.
- Publication
Nature neuroscience, 2009, Vol 12, Issue 12, p1577
- ISSN
1546-1726
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nn.2441