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Early lock-in of structured and specialised information flows during neural development

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ELIFE
卷 11, 期 -, 页码 -

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eLIFE SCIENCES PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.74651

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transfer entropy; information flow; development; neural cell cultures; networks; STDP; None

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  1. Australian Research Council [DE160100630]
  2. University of Sydney SOAR Fellowship
  3. Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 1528]
  4. Australian Research Council [DE160100630] Funding Source: Australian Research Council

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This study quantifies the changes in information flow during neural development by analyzing the spontaneous activity of developing dissociated neural cell cultures. It reveals a dramatic increase in information flow quantity across networks during development, as well as the tendency for information flows to lock-in at specific points. Additionally, it characterizes the specialized computational roles undertaken by nodes during population bursts, with these roles aligning with average spike ordering and becoming regularly locked-in once established.
The brains of many organisms are capable of complicated distributed computation underpinned by a highly advanced information processing capacity. Although substantial progress has been made towards characterising the information flow component of this capacity in mature brains, there is a distinct lack of work characterising its emergence during neural development. This lack of progress has been largely driven by the lack of effective estimators of information processing operations for spiking data. Here, we leverage recent advances in this estimation task in order to quantify the changes in transfer entropy during development. We do so by studying the changes in the intrinsic dynamics of the spontaneous activity of developing dissociated neural cell cultures. We find that the quantity of information flowing across these networks undergoes a dramatic increase across development. Moreover, the spatial structure of these flows exhibits a tendency to lock-in at the point when they arise. We also characterise the flow of information during the crucial periods of population bursts. We find that, during these bursts, nodes tend to undertake specialised computational roles as either transmitters, mediators, or receivers of information, with these roles tending to align with their average spike ordering. Further, we find that these roles are regularly locked-in when the information flows are established. Finally, we compare these results to information flows in a model network developing according to a spike-timing-dependent plasticity learning rule. Similar temporal patterns in the development of information flows were observed in these networks, hinting at the broader generality of these phenomena.

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