Sensitivity to the cutoff value in the quadratic adaptive integrate-and-fire model

Details Sensitivity to the cutoff value in the quadratic adaptive integrate-and-fire model Sensitivity to the cutoff value in the quadratic adaptive integrate-and-fire model

2008-12-05

arxiv.org/abs/0812.1164v1

Mathematics

Dynamical Systems

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The quadratic adaptive integrate-and-fire model (Izhikecih 2003, 2007) is recognized as very interesting for its computational efficiency and its ability to reproduce many behaviors observed in cortical neurons. For this reason it is currently widely used, in particular for large scale simulations of neural networks. This model emulates the dynamics of the membrane potential of a neuron together with an adaptation variable. The subthreshold dynamics is governed by a two-parameter differential equation, and a spike is emitted when the membrane potential variable reaches a given cutoff value. Subsequently the membrane potential is reset, and the adaptation variable is added a fixed value called the spike-triggered adaptation parameter. We show in this note that when the system does not converge to an equilibrium point, both variables of the subthreshold dynamical system blow up in finite time whatever the parameters of the dynamics. The cutoff is therefore essential for the model to be well defined and simulated. The divergence of the adaptation variable makes the system very sensitive to the cutoff: changing this parameter dramatically changes the spike patterns produced. Furthermore from a computational viewpoint, the fact that the adaptation variable blows up and the very sharp slope it has when the spike is emitted implies that the time step of the numerical simulation needs to be very small (or adaptive) in order to catch an accurate value of the adaptation at the time of the spike. It is not the case for the similar quartic (Touboul 2008) and exponential (Brette and Gerstner 2005) models whose adaptation variable does not blow up in finite time, and which are therefore very robust to changes in the cutoff value.

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