Biology – Quantitative Biology – Neurons and Cognition
Scientific paper
2008-10-18
Physica A 388 (2009) 499-513
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Neurons and Cognition
20 pages, 10 figures, accepted in Physica A (revised version of arXiv:0706.3489)
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physa.2008.10.033
A population of firing neurons is expected to carry information not only by mean firing rate but also by fluctuation and synchrony among neurons. In order to examine this possibility, we have studied responses of neuronal ensembles to three kinds of inputs: mean-, fluctuation- and synchrony-driven inputs. The generalized rate-code model including additive and multiplicative noise (H. Hasegawa, Phys. Rev. E {\bf 75} (2007) 051904) has been studied by direct simulations (DSs) and the augmented moment method (AMM) in which equations of motion for mean firing rate, fluctuation and synchrony are derived. Results calculated by the AMM are in good agreement with those by DSs. The independent component analysis (ICA) of our results has shown that mean firing rate, fluctuation (or variability) and synchrony may carry independent information in the population rate-code model. The input-output relation of mean firing rates is shown to have higher sensitivity for larger multiplicative noise, as recently observed in prefrontal cortex. A comparison is made between results obtained by the integrate-and-fire (IF) model and our rate-code model.
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