1471-2202-14-S1-P354 1471-2202 Poster presentation <p>First spike latency sensitivity of spiking neuron models</p> TrottaLaural.trotta@ulg.ac.be FranciAlessio SepulchreRodolphe

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Liège, Liège, 4000, Belgium

Centre de recherché Inria Lille-Nord Europe, Parc scientifique de la Haute Borne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, 59650, France

BMC Neuroscience <p>Abstracts from the Twenty Second Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2013</p>Meeting abstracts<p>Twenty Second Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2013</p>Paris, France13-18 July 2013http://www.cnsorg.org/cns-2013-paris1471-2202 2013 14 Suppl 1 P354 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2202/14/S1/P354 10.1186/1471-2202-14-S1-P354
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First spike latency is the long-lasting period preceding the first spike of a neuron submitted to a super-threshold stimulus. It has been suggested that this latency could code for stimulus recognition in several sensory systems 12.

To encode information reliably, first spike latency should be sensitive to sensory inputs but robust to external perturbations. This paper studies the robustness of the first spike latency in spiking neuron models. These models are nonlinear and possibly high-dimensional. Understanding which parameters govern the first spike latency sensitivity in these systems generally requires extensive numerical simulations. We show that a local sensitivity analysis of the system is a good predictor of the global robustness of the latency code. This analysis, motivated by previous work on delayed decision-making in bistable models 3, relies on the assumption that the model posses a saddle node bifurcation with a sufficiently attractive center manifold. Results are illustrated on a 6-dimensional model including a K+-current of type A 4, a current of particular importance for first spike latencies, see Figure 1.

<p>Figure 1</p>

First spike latency in 4 when the Type A-current conductance is set to a value which corresponds to regenerative excitability

First spike latency in 4when the Type A-current conductance is set to a value which corresponds to regenerative excitability. When the current is slightly above the saddle node, the neuron presents a robust first spike latency (A). First spike latency decreases with the relative variation of current ΔIr, i.e the distance to the saddle node bifurcation (B). Analytical predictions of a local model (solid line) fit the results obtained by numerical simulations of the full model (dots).

Our results show that first spike latency coding is particularly robust for a new type of excitability called regenerative excitability 5.

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