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Synchronization and oscillatory dynamics in heterogeneous mutually inhibited neurons
We study some mechanisms responsible for synchronous oscillations and loss of
synchrony at physiologically relevant frequencies (10-200 Hz) in a network of
heterogeneous inhibitory neurons. We focus on the factors that determine the
level of synchrony and frequency of the network response, as well as the
effects of mild heterogeneity on network dynamics. With mild heterogeneity,
synchrony is never perfect and is relatively fragile. In addition, the effects
of inhibition are more complex in mildly heterogeneous networks than in
homogeneous ones. In the former, synchrony is broken in two distinct ways,
depending on the ratio of the synaptic decay time to the period of repetitive
action potentials (), where can be determined either from the
network or from a single, self-inhibiting neuron. With ,
corresponding to large applied current, small synaptic strength or large
synaptic decay time, the effects of inhibition are largely tonic and
heterogeneous neurons spike relatively independently. With ,
synchrony breaks when faster cells begin to suppress their less excitable
neighbors; cells that fire remain nearly synchronous. We show numerically that
the behavior of mildly heterogeneous networks can be related to the behavior of
single, self-inhibiting cells, which can be studied analytically.Comment: 17 pages, 6 figures, Kluwer.sty. Journal of Compuational Neuroscience
(in press). Originally submitted to the neuro-sys archive which was never
publicly announced (was 9802001
Asynchronous response of coupled pacemaker neurons
We study a network model of two conductance-based pacemaker neurons of
differing natural frequency, coupled with either mutual excitation or
inhibition, and receiving shared random inhibitory synaptic input. The networks
may phase-lock spike-to-spike for strong mutual coupling. But the shared input
can desynchronize the locked spike-pairs by selectively eliminating the lagging
spike or modulating its timing with respect to the leading spike depending on
their separation time window. Such loss of synchrony is also found in a large
network of sparsely coupled heterogeneous spiking neurons receiving shared
input.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Phase-locking in weakly heterogeneous neuronal networks
We examine analytically the existence and stability of phase-locked states in
a weakly heterogeneous neuronal network. We consider a model of N neurons with
all-to-all synaptic coupling where the heterogeneity is in the firing frequency
or intrinsic drive of the neurons. We consider both inhibitory and excitatory
coupling. We derive the conditions under which stable phase-locking is
possible. In homogeneous networks, many different periodic phase-locked states
are possible. Their stability depends on the dynamics of the neuron and the
coupling. For weak heterogeneity, the phase-locked states are perturbed from
the homogeneous states and can remain stable if their homogeneous conterparts
are stable. For enough heterogeneity, phase-locked solutions either lose
stability or are destroyed completely. We analyze the possible states the
network can take when phase-locking is broken.Comment: RevTex, 27 pages, 3 figure
Inhibition of left anterior intraparietal sulcus shows that mutual adjustment marks dyadic joint-actions in humans
Creating real-life dynamic contexts to study interactive behaviors is a fundamental challenge for the social neuroscience of interpersonal relations. Real synchronic interpersonal motor interactions involve online, inter-individual mutual adaptation (the ability to adapt one's movements to those of another in order to achieve a shared goal). In order to study the contribution of the left anterior Intra Parietal Sulcus (aIPS) (i.e. a region supporting motor functions) to mutual adaptation, here, we combined a behavioral grasping task where pairs of participants synchronized their actions when performing mutually adaptive imitative and complementary movements, with the inhibition of activity of aIPS via non-invasive brain stimulation. This approach allowed us to investigate whether aIPS supports online complementary and imitative interactions. Behavioral results showed that inhibition of aIPS selectively impairs pair performance during complementary compared to imitative interactions. Notably, this effect depended on pairs' mutual adaptation skills and was higher for pairs composed of participants who were less capable of adapting to each other. Thus, we provide the first causative evidence for a role of the left aIPS in supporting mutually adaptive interactions and show that the inhibition of the neural resources of one individual of a pair is compensated at the dyadic level
A guided tour of asynchronous cellular automata
Research on asynchronous cellular automata has received a great amount of
attention these last years and has turned to a thriving field. We survey the
recent research that has been carried out on this topic and present a wide
state of the art where computing and modelling issues are both represented.Comment: To appear in the Journal of Cellular Automat
Noise-induced synchronization and anti-resonance in excitable systems; Implications for information processing in Parkinson's Disease and Deep Brain Stimulation
We study the statistical physics of a surprising phenomenon arising in large
networks of excitable elements in response to noise: while at low noise,
solutions remain in the vicinity of the resting state and large-noise solutions
show asynchronous activity, the network displays orderly, perfectly
synchronized periodic responses at intermediate level of noise. We show that
this phenomenon is fundamentally stochastic and collective in nature. Indeed,
for noise and coupling within specific ranges, an asymmetry in the transition
rates between a resting and an excited regime progressively builds up, leading
to an increase in the fraction of excited neurons eventually triggering a chain
reaction associated with a macroscopic synchronized excursion and a collective
return to rest where this process starts afresh, thus yielding the observed
periodic synchronized oscillations. We further uncover a novel anti-resonance
phenomenon: noise-induced synchronized oscillations disappear when the system
is driven by periodic stimulation with frequency within a specific range. In
that anti-resonance regime, the system is optimal for measures of information
capacity. This observation provides a new hypothesis accounting for the
efficiency of Deep Brain Stimulation therapies in Parkinson's disease, a
neurodegenerative disease characterized by an increased synchronization of
brain motor circuits. We further discuss the universality of these phenomena in
the class of stochastic networks of excitable elements with confining coupling,
and illustrate this universality by analyzing various classical models of
neuronal networks. Altogether, these results uncover some universal mechanisms
supporting a regularizing impact of noise in excitable systems, reveal a novel
anti-resonance phenomenon in these systems, and propose a new hypothesis for
the efficiency of high-frequency stimulation in Parkinson's disease
An Experimental Study of Robustness to Asynchronism for Elementary Cellular Automata
Cellular Automata (CA) are a class of discrete dynamical systems that have
been widely used to model complex systems in which the dynamics is specified at
local cell-scale. Classically, CA are run on a regular lattice and with perfect
synchronicity. However, these two assumptions have little chance to truthfully
represent what happens at the microscopic scale for physical, biological or
social systems. One may thus wonder whether CA do keep their behavior when
submitted to small perturbations of synchronicity.
This work focuses on the study of one-dimensional (1D) asynchronous CA with
two states and nearest-neighbors. We define what we mean by ``the behavior of
CA is robust to asynchronism'' using a statistical approach with macroscopic
parameters. and we present an experimental protocol aimed at finding which are
the robust 1D elementary CA. To conclude, we examine how the results exposed
can be used as a guideline for the research of suitable models according to
robustness criteria.Comment: Version : Feb 13th, 2004, submitted to Complex System
A statistical mechanics of an oscillator associative memory with scattered natural frequencies
Analytic treatment of a non-equilibrium random system with large degrees of
freedoms is one of most important problems of physics. However, little research
has been done on this problem as far as we know. In this paper, we propose a
new mean field theory that can treat a general class of a non-equilibrium
random system. We apply the present theory to an analysis for an associative
memory with oscillatory elements, which is a well-known typical random system
with large degrees of freedoms.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figure
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