Abstract：
:Firing-rate models describing neural-network activity can be formulated in terms of differential equations for the synaptic drive from neurons. Such models are typically derived from more general models based on Volterra integral equations assuming exponentially decaying temporal coupling kernels describing the coupling of pre- and postsynaptic activities. Here we study models with other choices of temporal coupling kernels. In particular, we investigate the stability properties of constant solutions of two-population Volterra models by studying the equilibrium solutions of the corresponding autonomous dynamical systems, derived using the linear chain trick, by means of the Routh-Hurwitz criterion. In the four investigated synaptic-drive models with identical equilibrium points we find that the choice of temporal coupling kernels significantly affects the equilibrium-point stability properties. A model with an alpha-function replacing the standard exponentially decaying function in the inhibitory coupling kernel is in most of our examples found to be most prone to instability, while the opposite situation with an alpha-function describing the excitatory kernel is found to be least prone to instability. The standard model with exponentially decaying coupling kernels is typically found to be an intermediate case. We further find that stability is promoted by increasing the weight of self-inhibition or shortening the time constant of the inhibition.
journal_name
Biol Cybernjournal_title
Biological cyberneticsauthors
Nordbø O,Wyller J,Einevoll GTdoi
10.1007/s00422-007-0167-zsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-09-01 00:00:00pages
195-209issue
3eissn
0340-1200issn
1432-0770journal_volume
97pub_type
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