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The relative timing of action potentials in neurons recorded from local cortical networks often shows a non-trivial dependence, which is then quantified by cross-correlation functions. Theoretical models emphasize that such spike train…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-28 Taskin Deniz , Stefan Rotter

Working memory requires the brain to maintain information from the recent past to guide ongoing behavior. Neurons can contribute to this capacity by slowly integrating their inputs over time, creating persistent activity that outlasts the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-20 Nicoas Zucchet , Qianqian Feng , Axel Laborieux , Friedemann Zenke , Walter Senn , João Sacramento

Temporal neural networks (TNNs) are neuromorphic neural networks that utilize bit-serial temporal coding. TNNs are composed of columns, which in turn employ neurons as their building blocks. Each neuron processes volleys of input spikes,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Devon Lister , Prabhu Vellaisamy , John Paul Shen , Di Wu

In recent years, spiking neural networks (SNNs) have attracted substantial interest due to their potential to replicate the energy-efficient and event-driven processing of biological neurons. Despite this, the application of SNNs in graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Mingkun Xu , Huifeng Yin , Yujie Wu , Guoqi Li , Faqiang Liu , Jing Pei , Shuai Zhong , Lei Deng

Brain can recognize different objects as ones that it has experienced before. The recognition accuracy and its processing time depend on task properties such as viewing condition, level of noise and etc. Recognition accuracy can be well…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-27 Hamed Heidari Gorji , Sajjad Zabbah , Reza Ebrahimpour

Human reasoning can often be understood as an interplay between two systems: the intuitive and associative ("System 1") and the deliberative and logical ("System 2"). Neural sequence models -- which have been increasingly successful at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Maxwell Nye , Michael Henry Tessler , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Brenden M. Lake

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), particularly the single-spike variant in which neurons spike at most once, are considerably more energy efficient than standard artificial neural networks (ANNs). However, single-spike SSNs are difficult to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Luke Taylor , Andrew King , Nicol Harper

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) have captured apparent interest over the recent years, stemming from neuroscience and reaching the field of artificial intelligence. However, due to their nature SNNs remain far behind in achieving the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Katerina Maria Oikonomou , Vasiliki Balaska , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Christos N. Mavridis , Ioannis Kansizoglou , Antonios Gasteratos

Neuroscience research has made immense progress over the last decade, but our understanding of the brain remains fragmented and piecemeal: the dream of probing an arbitrary brain region and automatically reading out the information encoded…

A fundamental problem in neuroscience is to understand how sequences of action potentials ("spikes") encode information about sensory signals and motor outputs. Although traditional theories of neural coding assume that information is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-12 Kyle H. Srivastava , Caroline M. Holmes , Michiel Vellema , Andrea Pack , Coen P. H. Elemans , Ilya Nemenman , Samuel J. Sober

A novel approach to moment closure problem is used to derive low dimensional laws for the dynamics of the moments of the membrane potential distribution in a population of spiking neurons. Using spectral expansion of the density equation we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-08 Gianni Valerio Vinci , Roberto Benzi , Maurizio Mattia

The paper explores the capability of continuous-time recurrent neural networks to store and recall precisely timed scores of spike trains. We show (by numerical experiments) that this is indeed possible: within some range of parameters, any…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hugo Aguettaz , Hans-Andrea Loeliger

The plasticity of the conduction delay between neurons plays a fundamental role in learning. However, the exact underlying mechanisms in the brain for this modulation is still an open problem. Understanding the precise adjustment of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Alireza Nadafian , Mohammad Ganjtabesh

We study the spike statistics of neurons in a network with dynamically balanced excitation and inhibition. Our model, intended to represent a generic cortical column, comprises randomly connected excitatory and inhibitory leaky…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Alexander Lerchner , Cristina Ursta , John Hertz , Mandana Ahmadi , Pauline Ruffiot

This article underlines the learning and discrimination capabilities of a model of associative memory based on artificial networks of spiking neurons. Inspired from neuropsychology and neurobiology, the model implements top-down…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Anthony Mouraud , Hélène Paugam-Moisy

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), with their brain-inspired spatiotemporal dynamics and spike-driven computation, have emerged as promising energy-efficient alternatives to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). However, existing SNNs typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Fan Luo , Zeyu Gao , Xinhao Luo , Kai Zhao , Yanfeng Lu

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a promising pathway to implement deep neural networks (DNNs) in a more energy-efficient manner since their neurons are sparsely activated and inferences are event-driven. However, there have been very…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Changze Lv , Jianhan Xu , Xiaoqing Zheng

Plasticity is one of the most important properties of the nervous system, which enables animals to adjust their behavior to the ever-changing external environment. Changes in synaptic efficacy between neurons constitute one of the major…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-23 Taishi Iwasaki , Hideitsu Hino , Masami Tatsuno , Shotaro Akaho , Noboru Murata

Behavioral changes in animals and humans, as a consequence of an error or a verbal instruction, can be extremely rapid. Improvement in behavioral performances are usually associated in machine learning and reinforcement learning to synaptic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-12 Cristiano Capone , Luca Falorsi

Background: In neurophysiological data, latency refers to a global shift of spikes from one spike train to the next, either caused by response onset fluctuations or by finite propagation speed. Such systematic shifts in spike timing lead to…