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FRONTIERS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
卷 6, 期 -, 页码 1-14出版社
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00088
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D00232X/1, EP/C513711/1]
- University of Leeds
- EPSRC [EP/D00232X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/C513711/1, EP/D00232X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Synfire chains have long been proposed to generate precisely timed sequences of neural activity. Such activity has been linked to numerous neural functions including sensory encoding, cognitive and motor responses. In particular, it has been argued that synfire chains underlie the precise spatiotemporal firing patterns that control song production in a variety of songbirds. Previous studies have suggested that the development of synfire chains requires either initial sparse connectivity or strong topological constraints, in addition to any synaptic learning rules. Here, we show that this necessity can be removed by using a previously reported but hitherto unconsidered spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) rule and activity-dependent excitability. Under this rule the network develops stable synfire chains that possess a non-trivial, scalable multi-layer structure, in which relative layer sizes appear to follow a universal function. Using computational modeling and a coarse grained random walk model, we demonstrate the role of the STDP rule in growing, molding and stabilizing the chain, and link model parameters to the resulting structure.
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