Journal
FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 5, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2011.00042
Keywords
spiking neuron model; predicting spike times; reproducing firing patterns; leaky integrate-and-fire model; adaptive threshold; MAT model; voltage dependency; threshold variability
Funding
- MEXT Japan [20300083, 23115510]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [10J00396, 20300083] Funding Source: KAKEN
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In simulating realistic neuronal circuitry composed of diverse types of neurons, we need and elemental spiking neuron model that is capable of not only quantitatively reproducing spike times of biological neurons given in vivo-like fluctuating inputs, but also qualitatively representing a variety of firing responses to transient current inputs. Simplistic models based on leaky integrate-and-fire mechanisms have demonstrated the ability to adapt to biological neurons. In particular, the multi-timescale adaptive threshold (MAT) model reproduces and predicts precise spike times of regular-spiking, intrinsic-bursting, and fast-spiking neurons, under any fluctuating current; however, this model is incapable of reproducing such specific firing responses as inhibitory rebound spiking and resonate spiking. In this paper, we augment the MAT model by adding a voltage dependency term to the adaptive threshold so that the model can exhibit the full variety of firing responses to various transient current pulses while maintaining the high adaptability inherent in the original MAT model. Furthermore, with this addition, our model is actually able to better predict spike times. Despite the augmentation, the model has only four free parameters and is implementable in an efficient algorithm for large-scale simulation due to its linearity, serving as an element neuron model in the simulation of realistic neuronal circuitry.
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