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Dynamical mechanism for sharp orientation tuning in an integrate-and-fire model of a cortical hypercolumn

Dynamical mechanism for sharp orientation tuning in an integrate-and-fire model of a cortical hypercolumn
Dynamical mechanism for sharp orientation tuning in an integrate-and-fire model of a cortical hypercolumn
Orientation tuning in a ring of pulse-coupled integrate-and-fire (IF) neurons is analyzed in terms of spontaneous pattern formation. It is shown how the ring bifurcates from a synchronous state to a non-phase-locked state whose spike trains are characterized by clustered but irregular fluctuations of the interspike intervals (ISIs). The separation of these clusters in phase space results in a localized peak of activity as measured by the time-averaged firing rate of the neurons. This generates a sharp orientation tuning curve that can lock to a slowly rotating, weakly tuned external stimulus. Under certain conditions, the peak can slowly rotate even to a fixed external stimulus. The ring also exhibits hysteresis due to the subcritical nature of the bifurcation to sharp orientation tuning. Such behavior is shown to be consistent with a corresponding analog version of the IF model in the limit of slow synaptic interactions. For fast synapses, the deterministic fluctuations of the ISIs associated with the tuning curve can support a coefficient of variation of order unity.
2473-2511
Bressloff, P.C.
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Cowan, J.D.
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Bressloff, P.C., Bressloff, N.W. and Cowan, J.D. (2000) Dynamical mechanism for sharp orientation tuning in an integrate-and-fire model of a cortical hypercolumn. Neural Computation, 12 (11), 2473-2511.

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Orientation tuning in a ring of pulse-coupled integrate-and-fire (IF) neurons is analyzed in terms of spontaneous pattern formation. It is shown how the ring bifurcates from a synchronous state to a non-phase-locked state whose spike trains are characterized by clustered but irregular fluctuations of the interspike intervals (ISIs). The separation of these clusters in phase space results in a localized peak of activity as measured by the time-averaged firing rate of the neurons. This generates a sharp orientation tuning curve that can lock to a slowly rotating, weakly tuned external stimulus. Under certain conditions, the peak can slowly rotate even to a fixed external stimulus. The ring also exhibits hysteresis due to the subcritical nature of the bifurcation to sharp orientation tuning. Such behavior is shown to be consistent with a corresponding analog version of the IF model in the limit of slow synaptic interactions. For fast synapses, the deterministic fluctuations of the ISIs associated with the tuning curve can support a coefficient of variation of order unity.

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Published date: 2000

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Local EPrints ID: 21588
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/21588
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Date deposited: 06 Feb 2007
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 06:31

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Author: P.C. Bressloff
Author: N.W. Bressloff
Author: J.D. Cowan

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