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Motifs are patterns of subgraphs of complex networks. We studied the impact of such patterns of connectivity on the level of correlated, or synchronized, spiking activity among pairs of cells in a recurrent network model of integrate and…
Recent studies have shown how spiking networks can learn complex functionality through error-correcting plasticity, but the resulting structures and dynamics remain poorly studied. To elucidate how these models may link to observed dynamics…
Despite its better bio-plausibility, goal-driven spiking neural network (SNN) has not achieved applicable performance for classifying biological spike trains, and showed little bio-functional similarities compared to traditional artificial…
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We study how threshold model neurons transfer temporal and interneuronal input correlations to correlations of spikes. We find that the low common input regime is governed by firing rate dependent spike correlations which are sensitive to…
We address a question on the effect of common stochastic inputs on the correlation of the spikes trains of two neurons when they are possibly nonidentical and are coupled through direct connections. We show that the change in the…
Information encoding in the nervous system is supported through the precise spike-timings of neurons; however, an understanding of the underlying processes by which such representations are formed in the first place remains unclear. Here we…
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The principles of neural encoding and computations are inherently collective and usually involve large populations of interacting neurons with highly correlated activities. While theories of neural function have long recognized the…
Spiking networks that perform probabilistic inference have been proposed both as models of cortical computation and as candidates for solving problems in machine learning. However, the evidence for spike-based computation being in any way…
The correlated variability in the responses of a neural population to the repeated presentation of a sensory stimulus is a universally observed phenomenon. Such correlations have been studied in much detail, both with respect to their…
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