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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…

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Efficient pattern separation in dentate gyrus plays an important role in storing information in the hippocampus. Current knowledge of the structure and function of the hippocampus, entorhinal cortex and dentate gyrus, in pattern separation…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-08-02 Faramarz Faghihi , Homa Samani , Ahmed A. Moustafa

We analyze the time resolved spike statistics of a solitary and two mutually interacting chaotic semiconductor lasers whose chaos is characterized by apparently random, short intensity spikes. Repulsion between two successive spikes is…

How spiking activity reverberates through neuronal networks, how evoked and spontaneous activity interact and blend, and how the combined activities represent external stimulation are pivotal questions in neuroscience. We simulated minimal…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-01 Christoph Bauermeister , Hanna Keren , Jochen Braun

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are distributed trainable systems whose computing elements, or neurons, are characterized by internal analog dynamics and by digital and sparse synaptic communications. The sparsity of the synaptic spiking…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-22 Hyeryung Jang , Osvaldo Simeone , Brian Gardner , André Grüning

Leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) networks are standard reduced models for spike-based neural dynamics and a natural substrate for neuromorphic computation. We study time-driven Euler--Maruyama simulation of current-based LIF networks with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Xu'an Dou , Frank Chen , Kevin K Lin , Zhuo-Cheng Xiao

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) transmit information through discrete spikes, which performs well in processing spatial-temporal information. Due to the non-differentiable characteristic, there still exist difficulties in designing…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Dongcheng Zhao , Yi Zeng , Yang Li

The combination of spiking neural networks and event-based vision sensors holds the potential of highly efficient and high-bandwidth optical flow estimation. This paper presents the first hierarchical spiking architecture in which motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Federico Paredes-Vallés , Kirk Y. W. Scheper , Guido C. H. E. de Croon

We study the stability and information encoding capacity of synchronized states in a neuronal network model that represents part of thalamic circuitry. Our model neurons have a Hodgkin-Huxley-type low threshold Calcium channel, display post…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. H. E. Tiesinga , Jorge V. José

We propose a new model based on the Ising model with the aim to study synaptic plasticity phenomena in neural networks. It is today well established in biology that the synapses or connections between certain types of neurons are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-07-22 Eugene Pechersky , Guillem Via , Anatoly Yambartsev

The Bayesian view of the brain hypothesizes that the brain constructs a generative model of the world, and uses it to make inferences via Bayes' rule. Although many types of approximate inference schemes have been proposed for hierarchical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-15 Shashwat Shukla , Hideaki Shimazaki , Udayan Ganguly

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are considered to have enormous potential in the future development of Artificial Intelligence due to their brain-inspired and energy-efficient properties. Compared to vanilla Spatial-Temporal Back-propagation…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zecheng Hao , Yifan Huang , Zijie Xu , Wenxuan Liu , Yuanhong Tang , Zhaofei Yu , Tiejun Huang

Understanding cognitive flexibility and task-switching mechanisms in neural systems requires biologically plausible computational models. This tutorial presents a step-by-step approach to constructing a spiking neural network (SNN) that…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Ashwin Viswanathan Kannan , Madhumitha Ganesan

We consider a classical space-clamped Hodgkin-Huxley model neuron stimulated by synaptic excitation and inhibition with conductances represented by Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. Using numerical solutions of the stochastic model system…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-19 Henry C. Tuckwell , Susanne Ditlevsen

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) are brain-inspired machine learning algorithms with merits such as biological plausibility and unsupervised learning capability. Previous works have shown that converting Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) into…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Sijia Lu , Feng Xu

We analyze a large system of heterogeneous quadratic integrate-and-fire (QIF) neurons with time delayed, all-to-all synaptic coupling. The model is exactly reduced to a system of firing rate equations that is exploited to investigate the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-10-26 Federico Devalle , Ernest Montbrió , Diego Pazó

The human brain exhibits remarkable abilities in integrating temporally distant sensory inputs for decision-making. However, existing brain-inspired spiking neural networks (SNNs) have struggled to match their biological counterpart in…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Xinyi Chen , Jibin Wu , Huajin Tang , Qinyuan Ren , Kay Chen Tan

Cortical activity in-vivo displays relaxational time scales much longer than the membrane time constant of the neurons or the deactivation time of ionotropic synaptic conductances. The mechanisms responsible for such slow dynamics are not…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-07 Ferdinand Tixidre , Gianluigi Mongillo , Alessandro Torcini

There is consensus in the current literature that stable states of asynchronous irregular spiking activity require (i) large networks of 10 000 or more neurons and (ii) external background activity or pacemaker neurons. Yet already in 1963,…

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