TY - JOUR
T1 - A coarse-grained framework for spiking neuronal networks
T2 - Between homogeneity and synchrony
AU - Zhang, Jiwei
AU - Zhou, Douglas
AU - Cai, David
AU - Rangan, Aaditya V.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments JZ is partially supported by NSF Grant DMS-1009575. AR is supported by NSF Grants DMS-0914827 and DMS/NIGMS-1162548. DZ is supported by Shanghai Pujiang Program (Grant No. 10PJ1406300), NSFC (Grant No. 11101275 and No. 91230202) and the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars from State Education Ministry in China. DC is supported by NSF Grant DMS-1009575. DZ and DC are supported by New York University Abu Dhabi Research Grant G1301.
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - Homogeneously structured networks of neurons driven by noise can exhibit a broad range of dynamic behavior. This dynamic behavior can range from homogeneity to synchrony, and often incorporates brief spurts of collaborative activity which we call multiple-firing-events (MFEs). These multiple-firing- events depend on neither structured architecture nor structured input, and are an emergent property of the system. Although these MFEs likely play a major role in the neuronal avalanches observed in culture and in vivo, the mechanisms underlying these MFEs cannot easily be captured using current population-dynamics models. In this work we introduce a coarse-grained framework which illustrates certain dynamics responsible for the generation of MFEs. By using a new kind of ensemble-average, this coarse-grained framework can not only address the nucleation of MFEs, but can also faithfully capture a broad range of dynamic regimes ranging from homogeneity to synchrony.
AB - Homogeneously structured networks of neurons driven by noise can exhibit a broad range of dynamic behavior. This dynamic behavior can range from homogeneity to synchrony, and often incorporates brief spurts of collaborative activity which we call multiple-firing-events (MFEs). These multiple-firing- events depend on neither structured architecture nor structured input, and are an emergent property of the system. Although these MFEs likely play a major role in the neuronal avalanches observed in culture and in vivo, the mechanisms underlying these MFEs cannot easily be captured using current population-dynamics models. In this work we introduce a coarse-grained framework which illustrates certain dynamics responsible for the generation of MFEs. By using a new kind of ensemble-average, this coarse-grained framework can not only address the nucleation of MFEs, but can also faithfully capture a broad range of dynamic regimes ranging from homogeneity to synchrony.
KW - Dynamical systems
KW - Homogeneity
KW - Multiple firing events
KW - Partitioned-ensemble-average
KW - Spiking neurons
KW - Synchrony
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U2 - 10.1007/s10827-013-0488-y
DO - 10.1007/s10827-013-0488-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 24338105
AN - SCOPUS:84905383534
SN - 0929-5313
VL - 37
SP - 81
EP - 104
JO - Journal of Computational Neuroscience
JF - Journal of Computational Neuroscience
IS - 1
ER -