Early cortical orientation selectivity: how fast inhibition decodes the order of spike latencies.

abstract：:The precise mapping of how complex patterns of synaptic inputs are integrated into specific patterns of spiking output is an essential step in the characterization of the cellular basis of network dynamics and function. Relative to other principal neurons of the hippocampus, the electrophysiology of CA1 pyramidal cell...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Li X,Ascoli GA

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a non-symmetric waveform on nerve conduction block induced by high-frequency biphasic stimulation is investigated using a lumped circuit model of the unmyelinated axon based on Hodgkin-Huxley equations. The simulation results reveal that the block threshold monotonically increases with the stimulation fr...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Zhao S,Yang G,Wang J,Roppolo JR,de Groat WC,Tai C

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Linear additivity of synaptic input is a pervasive assumption in computational neuroscience, and previously Bernander et al. (Journal of Neurophysiology 72:2743-2753, 1994) point out that the sublinear additivity of a passive neuronal model can be linearized with voltage-dependent currents. Here we re-examine this per...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Morel D,Levy W

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several neuron types have been shown to exhibit (subthreshold) membrane potential resonance (MPR), defined as the occurrence of a peak in their voltage amplitude response to oscillatory input currents at a preferred (resonant) frequency. MPR has been investigated both experimentally and theoretically. However, whether...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Bel A,Rotstein HG

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Implementation of double cable models to simulate the behavior of myelinated peripheral nerve fibers requires defining a segmentation of the internode between successive nodes of Ranvier. The number of internodal segments is a model parameter that is not well agreed on, with values in the literature ranging from 1 to ...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Dekker DM,Briaire JJ,Frijns JH

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many animals produce pulse-like signals during acoustic communication. These signals exhibit structure on two time scales: they consist of trains of pulses that are often broadcast in packets-so called chirps. Temporal parameters of the pulse and of the chirp are decisive for female preference. Despite these signals b...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Clemens J,Hennig RM

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma oscillations can synchronize with near zero phase lag over multiple cortical regions and between hemispheres, and between two distal sites in hippocampal slices. How synchronization can take place over long distances in a stable manner is considered an open question. The phase resetting curve (PRC) keeps track o...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Woodman MM,Canavier CC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motivated by experimental observations of the head direction system, we study a three population network model that operates as a continuous attractor network. This network is able to store in a short-term memory an angular variable (the head direction) as a spatial profile of activity across neurons in the absence of...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Boucheny C,Brunel N,Arleo A

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neuron receives input from other neurons via electrical pulses, so-called spikes. The pulse-like nature of the input is frequently neglected in analytical studies; instead, the input is usually approximated to be Gaussian. Recent experimental studies have shown, however, that an assumption underlying this approximat...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Droste F,Lindner B

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Waves have long been thought to be a fundamental mechanism for communicating information within a medium and are widely observed in biological systems. However, a quantitative analysis of biological waves is confounded by the variability and complexity of the response. This paper proposes a robust technique for extrac...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Robbins KA,Senseman DM

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simultaneous recordings of spike trains from multiple single neurons are becoming commonplace. Understanding the interaction patterns among these spike trains remains a key research area. A question of interest is the evaluation of information flow between neurons through the analysis of whether one spike train exerts...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Nedungadi AG,Rangarajan G,Jain N,Ding M

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This modeling study examines the possible functional roles of two hyperpolarization-activated conductances in lateral superior olive (LSO) principal neurons. Inputs of these LSO neurons are transformed into an output, which provides a firing-rate code for a certain interaural sound intensity difference (IID) range. Re...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Szalisznyó K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synaptic plasticity is believed to represent the neural correlate of mammalian learning and memory function. It has been demonstrated that changes in synaptic conductance can be induced by approximately synchronous pairings of pre- and post- synaptic action potentials delivered at low frequencies. It has also been est...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Bush D,Jin Y

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory neurons code information about stimuli in their sequence of action potentials (spikes). Intuitively, the spikes should represent stimuli with high fidelity. However, generating and propagating spikes is a metabolically expensive process. It is therefore likely that neural codes have been selected to balance en...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Johnson EC,Jones DL,Ratnam R

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most neurons in the primary visual cortex initially respond vigorously when a preferred stimulus is presented, but adapt as stimulation continues. The functional consequences of adaptation are unclear. Typically a reduction of firing rate would reduce single neuron accuracy as less spikes are available for decoding, b...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Cortes JM,Marinazzo D,Series P,Oram MW,Sejnowski TJ,van Rossum MC

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a new computationally efficient approach for the analysis of complex large-scale neurobiological networks. Its key element is the use of a new phenomenological model of a neuron capable of replicating important spike pattern characteristics and designed in the form of a system of difference equations (a map...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Rulkov NF,Timofeev I,Bazhenov M

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Can one develop an abstract description of the dynamics of pattern generators that provides quantitative insight into their operation? We explored this question by examining the dynamics of a model central pattern generator that was created using an evolutionary algorithm. We propose an abstract description based on t...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Chiel HJ,Beer RD,Gallagher JC

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many mechanisms of neural processing rely critically upon the synaptic connectivity between neurons. As our ability to simultaneously record from large populations of neurons expands, the ability to infer network connectivity from this data has become a major goal of computational neuroscience. To address this issue, ...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Kobayashi R,Kitano K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmic bursting activity, found in many biological systems, serves a variety of important functions. Such activity is composed of episodes, or bursts (the active phase, AP) that are separated by quiescent periods (the silent phase, SP). Here, we use mean field, firing rate models of excitatory neural network activit...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Tabak J,O'Donovan MJ,Rinzel J

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the dynamics and bifurcations of noise-free neurons coupled by gap junctions and inhibitory synapses, using both delayed delta functions and alpha functions to model the latter. We focus on the case of two cells, as in the studies of Chow and Kopell (2000) and Lewis and Rinzel (2003), but also show that stabl...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Gao J,Holmes P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Motoneuron responses were elicited by global visual motion and stepwise displacements of an illuminated stripe. Stimulus protocols were identical to those used in previous behavioral studies of compensatory eyestalk reflexes. The firing rates and directional selectivity of the motoneuron responses were measured with r...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Miller CS,Johnson DH,Schroeter JP,Myint L,Glantz RM

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of neurons to external stimuli greatly depends on the intrinsic dynamics of the network. Here, the intrinsic dynamics are modeled as coupling and the external input is modeled as shared and unshared noise. We assume the neurons are repetitively firing action potentials (i.e., neural oscillators), are weak...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Ly C,Ermentrout GB

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explore the effects of stochastic sodium (Na) channel activation on the variability and dynamics of spiking and bursting in a model neuron. The complete model segregates Hodgin-Huxley-type currents into two compartments, and undergoes applied current-dependent bifurcations between regimes of periodic bursting, chao...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Rowat PF,Elson RC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A neuron's firing correlates are defined as the features of the external world to which its activity is correlated. In many parts of the brain, neurons have quite simple such firing correlates. A striking example are grid cells in the rodent medial entorhinal cortex: their activity correlates with the animal's positio...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Rosay S,Weber S,Mulas M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We consider whole-cell voltage-clamp data of isolated currents characterized by the Hodgkin-Huxley paradigm. We examine the errors associated with the typical parameter estimation method for these data and show them to be unsatisfactorally large especially if the time constants of activation and inactivation are not s...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Willms AR,Baro DJ,Harris-Warrick RM,Guckenheimer J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work presents a probabilistic method for inferring the parameter ranges in a biologically relevant mathematical model of the cortex most likely to be producing seizures observed in an electrocorticogram (ECoG) signal from a human subject. Additionally, this method produces a probabilistic pathway of the temporal ...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Dadok VM,Kirsch HE,Sleigh JW,Lopour BA,Szeri AJ

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a computational study aimed at exploring the sensorimotor cortex modulation of the behaviour of dorsal column nuclei, specifically the impact of synaptic parameters, during both sleep and waking conditions. On the basis of the circuit proposed by Canedo et al. (2000), we have developed realistic computation...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Sánchez E,Barro S,Mariño J,Canedo A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) display differences in their morphology and intrinsic electrophysiology. The goal of this study is to characterize the ionic currents that explain the behavior of ON and OFF RGCs and to explore if all morphological types of RGCs exhibit the phenomena described in electrophysiological data...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Maturana MI,Kameneva T,Burkitt AN,Meffin H,Grayden DB

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The implications for motor learning of the model developed in the previous article are analyzed using idealized Pavlovian eyelid conditioning trials, a simple example of cerebellar motor learning. Results suggest that changes in gr-->Pkj synapses produced by a training trial disrupt equilibrium and lead to subsequent ...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Kenyon GT,Medina JF,Mauk MD

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hebbian plasticity means that if the firing of two neurons is correlated, then their connection is strengthened. Conversely, uncorrelated firing causes a decrease in synaptic strength. Spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) represents one instantiation of Hebbian plasticity. Under STDP, synaptic changes depend on th...

journal_title：Journal of computational neuroscience

authors： Houben AM,Keil MS

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00