Fast propagation of firing rates through layered networks of noisy neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1956-1966

  Van Rossum, Mark C W ^a   Turrigiano, Gina G ^a   Nelson, Sacha B ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrate and fire neurons; Network models; Population coding; Propagation; Rate coding; Sensory processing; Synfire models

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0036523040     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-05-01956.2002     Document Type: Article

References (48)

1. Abeles M (1991) Corticonics: Neural Circuits of the Cerebral Cortex. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge UP.
2. Adrian ED (1928) The Basis of Sensation. London: Christophers.
3. Anderson JS, Lampl I, Gillespie DC, Ferster D (2000) The contribution of noise to contrast invariance of orientation tuning in cat visual cortex. Science 290:1968-1972.
4. Barlow HB (1972) Single units and sensation: A neuron doctrine for perceptual psychology? Perception 1:371-394.
5. Bekkers JM, Richerson GB, Stevens CF (1990) Origin of variability in quantal size in cultured hippocampal neurons and hippocampal slices. Proc Natl Acad Sci 87:5359-5362.
6. Burkitt AN, Clark GM (1999) Analysis of integrate-and-fire neurons: Synchronization of synaptic input and output spike. Neural Comp 11:871-901.
7. Deneve S, Latham PE, Pouget A (1999) Reading population codes: A neural implementation of ideal observers. Nat Neurosci 2:740-745.
8. Diesmann M, Gewaltig MO, Aertsen A (1999) Stable propagation of synchronous spiking in cortical neural networks. Nature 402:529-533.
9. Fukushima K (1980) Neocognitron: A self-organising multi-layered neural network. Biol Cybern 20:121-136.
10. Galarreta M, Hestrin S (2001) Spike transmission and synchrony detection in networks of GABAergic interneurons. Science 292:2295-2299.
11. Gautrais J, Thorpe S (1998) Rate coding versus temporal order coding: A theoretical approach. Biosystems 48:57-65.
12. Georgopoulos AP, Schwartz AB, Kettner RE (1986) Neuronal population coding of movement direction. Science 233:1416-1419.
13. Gerstner W (1999) Population dynamics of spiking neurons: Fast transients, asynchronous state, and locking. Neural Comp 12:43-89.
14. Gray CM, Konig P, Engel AK, Singer W (1989) Oscillatory responses in cat visual cortex exhibit inter-columnar synchronization which reflects global stimulus properties. Nature 338:334-337.
15. Hô N, Destexhe A (2000) Synaptic background activity enhances the responsiveness of neocortical pyramidal neurons. J Neurophysiol 84:1488-1496.
16. Holt GR, Softky WR, Koch C, Douglas RJ (1996) Comparison of discharge variability in vitro and in vivo in cat visual neurons. J Neurophysiol 75:1806-1814.
17. Hupé JM, James AC, Girard P, Lomber SG, Payne BR, Bullier J (2001) Feedback connections act on the early part of the responses in monkey visual cortex. J Neurophysiol 85:134-145.
18. Kempter R, Gerstner W, van Hemmen JL, Wagner H (1998) Extracting oscillations: Neuronal coincidence detection with noisy periodic spike input. Neural Comp 10:1987-2017.
19. Knight BW (1972a) Dynamics of encoding in a population of neurons. J Gen Physiol 59:734-766.
20. Knight BW (1972b) The relationship between the firing rate of a single neuron and the level of activity in a population of neurons. J Gen Physiol 59:767-778.
21. Maass W, Natschlager T (2000) A model for fast analog computation based on unreliable synapses. Neural Comp 12:1679-1704.
22. Marsalek PR, Koch C, Maunsell J (1997) On the relationship between synaptic input and spike output jitter in individual neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci 94:735-740.
23. Maunsell JH, Ghose GM, Assad JA, McAdams CJ, Boudreau CE, Noerager BD (1999) Visual response latencies of magnocellular and parvocellular LGN neurons in macaque monkeys. Vis Neurosci 16:1-14.
24. Nicolelis MAL, Ghazanfar AA, Stambaugh CR, Olieviera LMO, Laubach M, Chapin JK, Nelson RJ, Kaas JH (1998) Simultaneous encoding of tactile information by three primate cortical areas. Nat Neurosci 1:621-630.
25. Nowak LG, Bullier J (1997) The timing of information transfer in the visual system. In: Extrastriate Cortex in Primates, Vol 12, Cerebral Cortex (Rockland KS, Kaas JH, Peters A, eds), pp 205-241. New York: Plenum.
26. Otmakhov N, Shirke AM, Malinow R (1993) Measuring the impact of probabilistic transmission on neuronal output. Neuron 10:1101-1111.
27. Panzeri S, Rolls ET, Battaglia F, Lavis R (2001) Speed of feedforward and recurrent processing in multilayer networks of integrate-and-fire neurons. Network Comput Neural Syst 12:423-440.
28. Paradiso MA (1988) A theory for the use of visual orientation information which exploits the columnar structure of striate cortex. Biol Cybern 58:35-49.
29. Perona P, Malik J (1990) Scale-space and edge detection using anisotropic diffusion. IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Machine Intell 12:629-639.
30. Raiguel SE, Xiao D-K, Marcar VL, Orban GA (1999) Response latency of macaque area MT/V1 neurons and its relationship to stimulus parameter. J Neurophysiol 82:1944-1956.
31. Reichardt W (1957) Autokorrelationsauswertung als funktionsprinzip des nervensystems. Z Naturforsch 12b:448-457.
32. Rice SO (1944) Mathematical analysis of random noise. Bell Syst Tech J 24:46-156.
33. Rieke F, Warland D, Steveninck R, Bialek W (1996) Spikes: Exploring the Neural Code. Cambridge, MA: MIT.
34. Riesenhuber M, Poggio T (1999) Hierarchical models of object recognition in cortex. Nat Neurosci 2:1019-1025.
35. Saul AB, Humphrey AL (1992) Evidence of input from lagged cells in the lateral geniculate nucleus to simple cells in cortical area 17 of the cat. J Neurophysiol 68:1190-1208.
36. Schmolesky MT, Wang Y, Hanes DP, Leutgeb S, Schall JB, Leventhal AG (1998) Signal timing across the macaque visual system. J Neurophysiol 79:3272-3278.
37. Shadlen MN, Newsome WT (1998) The variable discharge of cortical neurons: Implications for connectivity, computation, and information coding. J Neurosci 18:3870-3896.
38. Smith DR, Smith GK (1965) A statistical analysis of the continual activity of single cortical neurons in the cat unanesthetized forebrain. Biophys J 5:47-74.
39. Softky WR, Koch C (1993) The highly irregular firing of cortical cells is inconsistent with temporal integration of random EPSPs. J Neurosci 13:334-350.
40. Stein RB (1967) The information capacity of nerve cells using a frequency code. Biophys J 7:797-826.
41. Suarez H, Koch C, Douglas R (1995) Modeling direction selectivity of simple cells in striate visual cortex within the framework of the canonical microcircuit. J Neurosci 15:6700-6719.
42. Thorpe S, Fize D, Marlot C (1996) Speed of processing in the human visual system. Nature 381:520-522.
43. Tsodyks MV, Sejnowski TJ (1995) Rapid state switching in balanced cortical network models. Network 6:111-124.
44. van Rossum MCW (2001) The transient precision of integrate and fire neurons; effect of background activity and noise. J Comp Neurosci 10:303-311.
45. Van Rullen R, Thorpe SJ (2001) Rate coding versus temporal coding: What the retinal ganglion cells tell the visual cortex. Neural Comp 13:1255-1283.
46. van Santen JPH, Sperling G (1984) Temporal covariance model of human motion perception. J Opt Soc Am A 1:451-473.
47. van Vreeswijk C, Sompolinsky H (1996) Chaos in neuronal networks with balanced excitatory and inhibitory activity. Science 274:1724-1726.
48. Wilson HR, Cowan JD (1972) Excitatory and inhibitory interactions in localized populations of model neurons. Biophys J 12:1-24.