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Transient information flow in a network of excitatory and inhibitory model neurons: Role of noise and signal autocorrelation
Authors:Julien Mayor  Wulfram Gerstner
Institution:School of Computer and Communication Sciences and Brain-Mind Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. julien.mayor@epfl.ch
Abstract:We investigate the performance of sparsely-connected networks of integrate-and-fire neurons for ultra-short term information processing. We exploit the fact that the population activity of networks with balanced excitation and inhibition can switch from an oscillatory firing regime to a state of asynchronous irregular firing or quiescence depending on the rate of external background spikes. We find that in terms of information buffering the network performs best for a moderate, non-zero, amount of noise. Analogous to the phenomenon of stochastic resonance the performance decreases for higher and lower noise levels. The optimal amount of noise corresponds to the transition zone between a quiescent state and a regime of stochastic dynamics. This provides a potential explanation of the role of non-oscillatory population activity in a simplified model of cortical micro-circuits.
Keywords:Recurrent integrate-and-fire neuron networks  Sparse connectivity  Population dynamics  Information processing
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