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Mechanisms That Modulate the Transfer of Spiking Correlations

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Mechanisms That Modulate the Transfer of Spiking Correlations
Correlations between neuronal spike trains impact network dynamics and population coding. Overlapping afferent populations and correlations between presynaptic spike trains introduce correlations between the inputs to downstream cells. To understand network activity and population coding, it is therefore important to understand how these input correlations are transferred to output correlations. Recent studies have addressed this question in the limit of many inputs with infinitesimal postsynaptic response amplitudes, where the total input can be approximated by Gaussian noise. In contrast, we address the problem of correlation transfer by representing input spike trains as point processes with each input spike eliciting a finite postsynaptic response. This approach allows us to naturally model synaptic noise and recurrent coupling, and to treat excitatory and inhibitory inputs separately. We derive several new results that provide intuitive insights into the fundamental mechanisms...
Robert Rosenbaum, Kresimir Josic
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Type Journal
Year 2011
Where NECO
Authors Robert Rosenbaum, Kresimir Josic
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