• DocumentCode
    3069304
  • Title

    Spontaneous activity and learned delay activity in cortical networks

  • Author

    Brunel, Nicolas

  • Author_Institution
    INFN, Rome Univ., Italy
  • fYear
    1995
  • fDate
    20-23 Sep 1995
  • Firstpage
    154
  • Lastpage
    155
  • Abstract
    Investigates the conditions under which cortical activity alone makes spontaneous activity self-reproducing and stable against fluctuations of spike rates. Invoking simple assumptions about properties of integrate-and-fire neurons it is shown that the stochastic background activity, of 1-5 spikes/second, cannot be stabilized when all neurons are excitatory
  • Keywords
    brain; neural nets; neurophysiology; cortical activity; cortical networks; integrate-and-fire neurons; learned delay activity; self-reproducing activity; spike rates fluctuations; spontaneous activity; stochastic background activity; Delay; Fluctuations; Intelligent networks; Neurons; Stochastic processes;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neuroinformatics and Neurocomputers, 1995., Second International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Rostov on Don
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-2512-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISNINC.1995.480850
  • Filename
    480850