1471-2202-8-S2-P76 1471-2202 Poster presentation <p>Revisiting time discretisation of spiking network models</p> Cessac Bruno Bruno.Cessac@sophia.inria.fr Viéville Thierry

Odyssee Lab, INRIA, Sophia, France

INLN, Univ. of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, France

BMC Neuroscience <p>Sixteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2007</p> William R Holmes Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2202-8-S2-info.pdf <p>Sixteenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2007</p> Toronto, Canada 7–12 July 2007 http://www.cnsorg.org 1471-2202 2007 8 Suppl 2 P76 10.1186/1471-2202-8-S2-P76
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A link is built between a biologically plausible generalized integrate and fire (GIF) neuron model with conductance-based dynamics 1 and a discrete time neural network model with spiking neurons 2, for which rigorous results on the spontaneous dynamics has been obtained. More precisely the following has been shown.

i) Occurrence of periodic orbits is the generic regime of activity, with a bounded period in the presence of spike-time dependence plasticity, and arbitrary large periods at the edge of chaos (such regime is indistinguishable from chaos in numerical experiments, explaining what is obtained in 2),

ii) the dynamics of membrane potential has a one to one correspondence with sequences of spikes patterns ("raster plots").

This allows a better insight into the possible neural coding in such a network and provides a deep understanding, at the network level, of the system behavior. Moreover, though the dynamics is generically periodic, it has a weak form of initial conditions sensitivity due to the presence of the sharp spiking threshold 3. A step further, constructive conditions are derived, allowing to properly implement visual functions on such networks 4.

The time discretisation has been carefully conducted avoiding usual bias induced by e.g. Euler methods and taking into account a rather complex GIF model for which the usual arbitrary discontinuities are discussed in detail. The effects of the discretisation approximation have been analytically and experimentally analyzed, in detail.

<p>Figure 1</p>

A view of the numerical experiments software platform raster-plot output, considering either a generic fully connected network or, here, a retinotopic network related to visual functions (top-left: 2D instantaneous spiking activity)

A view of the numerical experiments software platform raster-plot output, considering either a generic fully connected network or, here, a retinotopic network related to visual functions (top-left: 2D instantaneous spiking activity).

Acknowledgements

This work was partially supported by the EC IP project FP6-015879, FACETS.

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