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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 101, Issue 20, Pages 7757-7762Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0401906101
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- NEI NIH HHS [T32EY07158, T32 EY007158] Funding Source: Medline
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A coarse-grained representation of neuronal network dynamics is developed in terms of kinetic equations, which are derived by a moment closure, directly from the original large-scale integrate-and-fire (I&F) network. This powerful kinetic theory captures the full dynamic range of neuronal networks, from the mean-driven limit (a limit such as the number of neurons N --> infinity, in which the fluctuations vanish) to the fluctuation-dominated limit (such as in small N networks). Comparison with full numerical simulations of the original I&F network establishes that the reduced dynamics is very accurate and numerically efficient over all dynamic ranges. Both analytical insights and scale-up of numerical representation can be achieved by this kinetic approach. Here, the theory is illustrated by a study of the dynamical properties of networks of various architectures, including excitatory and inhibitory neurons of both simple and complex type, which exhibit rich dynamic phenomena, such as, transitions to bistability and hysteresis, even in the presence of large fluctuations. The implication for possible connections between the structure of the bifurcations and the behavior of complex cells is discussed. Finally, I&F networks and kinetic theory are used to discuss orientation selectivity of complex cells for ring-model architectures that characterize changes in the response of neurons located from near orientation pinwheel centers to far from them.
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