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Continuous adaptation allows survival in an ever-changing world. Adjustments in the synaptic coupling strength between neurons are essential for this capability, setting us apart from simpler, hard-wired organisms. How these changes can be…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-06 Jakob Jordan , Maximilian Schmidt , Walter Senn , Mihai A. Petrovici

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer a biologically grounded and energy-efficient alternative to conventional neural architectures; however, they struggle with long-range temporal dependencies due to fixed synaptic and membrane time…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Sarim Chaudhry

Neural noise sets a limit to information transmission in sensory systems. In several areas, the spiking response (to a repeated stimulus) has shown a higher degree of regularity than predicted by a Poisson process. However, a simple model…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-08 Ulisse Ferrari , Stephane Deny , Olivier Marre , Thierry Mora

Most existing Spiking Neural Network (SNN) works state that SNNs may utilize temporal information dynamics of spikes. However, an explicit analysis of temporal information dynamics is still missing. In this paper, we ask several important…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Youngeun Kim , Yuhang Li , Hyoungseob Park , Yeshwanth Venkatesha , Anna Hambitzer , Priyadarshini Panda

Neuronal spikes directly drive muscles and endow animals with agile movements, but applying the spike-based control signals to actuators in artificial sensor-motor systems inevitably causes a collapse of learning. We developed a system that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-03 Takeshi Kobayashi , Shogo Yonekura , Yasuo Kuniyoshi

Understanding of short-term synaptic depression (STSD) and other forms of synaptic plasticity is a topical problem in neuroscience. Here we study the role of STSD in the formation of complex patterns of brain rhythms. We use a cortical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-12 K. -E. Lee , A. V. Goltsev , M. A. Lopes , J. F. F. Mendes

Mobile health applications, including those that track activities such as exercise, sleep, and diet, are becoming widely used. Accurately predicting human actions is essential for targeted recommendations that could improve our health and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Takeshi Kurashima , Tim Althoff , Jure Leskovec

Synaptic plasticity is a key component of neuronal dynamics, describing the process by which the connections between neurons change in response to experiences. In this study, we extend a network model of $\theta$-neuron oscillators to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-01 Niamh Fennelly , Alannah Neff , Renaud Lambiotte , Andrew Keane , Áine Byrne

Spiking neural network models characterize the emergent collective dynamics of circuits of biological neurons and help engineer neuro-inspired solutions across fields. Most dynamical systems' models of spiking neural networks typically…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Georg Börner , Fabio Schittler Neves , Marc Timme

Brain plasticity, also known as neuroplasticity, is a fundamental mechanism of neuronal adaptation in response to changes in the environment or due to brain injury. In this review, we show our results about the effects of synaptic…

State-of-the-art simulations of detailed neural models follow the Bulk Synchronous Parallel execution model. Execution is divided in equidistant communication intervals, equivalent to the shortest synaptic delay in the network. Neurons…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Bruno Magalhães , Michael Hines , Thomas Sterling , Felix Schuermann

We studied autoassociative networks in which synapses are noisy on a time scale much shorter that the one for the neuron dynamics. In our model a presynaptic noise causes postsynaptic depression as recently observed in neurobiological…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 J. J. Torres , J. M. Cortes , J. Marro

Spiking Neural Network (SNN) is considered more biologically realistic and power-efficient as it imitates the fundamental mechanism of the human brain. Recently, backpropagation (BP) based SNN learning algorithms that utilize deep learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Chengting Yu , Yangkai Du , Mufeng Chen , Aili Wang , Gaoang Wang , Erping Li

To understand how neural networks process information, it is important to investigate how neural network dynamics varies with respect to different stimuli. One challenging task is to design efficient statistical approaches to analyze…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-30 Zhi-Qin John Xu , Douglas Zhou , David Cai

Working memory (WM) has been intensively used to enable the temporary storing of information for processing purposes, playing an important role in the execution of various cognitive tasks. Recent studies have shown that information in WM is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-19 Thi Kim Thoa Thieu , Roderick Melnik

In this work, we propose time-integrated spike-timing-dependent plasticity (TI-STDP), a mathematical model of synaptic plasticity that allows spiking neural networks to continuously adapt to sensory input streams in an unsupervised fashion.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-16 William Gebhardt , Alexander G. Ororbia

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) could play a key role in unsupervised machine learning applications, by virtue of strengths related to learning from the fine temporal structure of event-based signals. However, some spike-timing-related…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Timoleon Moraitis , Abu Sebastian , Irem Boybat , Manuel Le Gallo , Tomas Tuma , Evangelos Eleftheriou

Flexible modulation of temporal dynamics in neural sequences underlies many cognitive processes. For instance, we can adaptively change the speed of motor sequences and speech. While such flexibility is influenced by various factors such as…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-15 Tomoki Kurikawa , Kunihiko Kaneko

Memories are stored, retained, and recollected through complex, coupled processes operating on multiple timescales. To understand the computational principles behind these intricate networks of interactions we construct a broad class of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-07-29 Marcus K. Benna , Stefano Fusi

Synaptic, dendritic and single-cell kinetics generate significant time delays that shape the dynamics of large networks of spiking neurons. Previous work has shown that such effective delays can be taken into account with a rate model…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-01-31 Alex Roxin , Ernest Montbrio