Inferring synaptic connectivity from spatio-temporal spike patterns

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Beitragende

  • Frank Van Bussel - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen (Autor:in)
  • Birgit Kriener - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Autor:in)
  • Marc Timme - , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen (Autor:in)

Abstract

Networks of well-known dynamical units but unknown interaction topology arise across various fields of biology, including genetics, ecology, and neuroscience. The collective dynamics of such networks is often sensitive to the presence (or absence) of individual interactions, but there is usually no direct way to probe for their existence. Here we present an explicit method for reconstructing interaction networks of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons from the spike patterns they exhibit in response to external driving. Given the dynamical parameters are known, the approach works well for networks in simple collective states but is also applicable to networks exhibiting complex spatio-temporal spike patterns. In particular, stationarity of spiking time series is not required.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer3
FachzeitschriftFrontiers in computational neuroscience
Jahrgang5
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 1 Feb. 2011
Peer-Review-StatusJa
Extern publiziertJa

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-5956-3137/work/142242493

Schlagworte

Schlagwörter

  • Chaotic spiking, Inverse methods, Irregular spiking, Leaky integrate-and-fire neuron, Networks, Synchronization