Journal
NEURON
Volume 109, Issue 21, Pages 3373-3391Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.07.031
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- University of Oregon
- National Science Foundation (NSF) [DBI-1707398]
- NIH [U01NS108683, R01EY029999, U19NS107613]
- Simons Foundation [543017]
- Gatsby Charitable Foundation
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Many studies have shown that the balance of excitation and inhibition received by cortical neurons is crucial for cortical functional responses.
Many studies have shown that the excitation and inhibition received by cortical neurons remain roughly balanced across many conditions. A key question for understanding the dynamical regime of cortex is the nature of this balancing. Theorists have shown that network dynamics can yield systematic cancellation of most of a neuron's excitatory input by inhibition. We review a wide range of evidence pointing to this cancellation occurring in a regime in which the balance is loose, meaning that the net input remaining after cancellation of excitation and inhibition is comparable in size with the factors that cancel, rather than tight, meaning that the net input is very small relative to the canceling factors. This choice of regime has important implications for cortical functional responses, as we describe: loose balance, but not tight balance, can yield many nonlinear population behaviors seen in sensory cortical neurons, allow the presence of correlated variability, and yield decrease of that variability with increasing external stimulus drive as observed across multiple cortical areas.
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