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ArticleJournal of computational neuroscience2015

Statistical structure of neural spiking under non-Poissonian or other non-white stimulation.

Tilo Schwalger, Felix Droste, Benjamin Lindner

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Article in Journal of computational neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Tilo SchwalgerBrain Mind Institute, École Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne (EPFL) Station 15, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland, tilo.schwalger@epfl.ch.
Felix Droste
Benjamin Lindner
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin · DEÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne · CHHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nerve cells in the brain generate sequences of action potentials with a complex statistics. Theoretical attempts to understand this statistics were largely limited to the case of a temporally uncorrelated input (Poissonian shot noise) from the neurons in the surrounding network. However, the stimulation from thousands of other neurons has various sorts of temporal structure. Firstly, input spike trains are temporally correlated because their firing rates can carry complex signals and because of cell-intrinsic properties like neural refractoriness, bursting, or adaptation. Secondly, at the connections between neurons, the synapses, usage-dependent changes in the synaptic weight (short-term plasticity) further shape the correlation structure of the effective input to the cell. From the theoretical side, it is poorly understood how these correlated stimuli, so-called colored noise, affect the spike train statistics. In particular, no standard method exists to solve the associated first-passage-time problem for the interspike-interval statistics with an arbitrarily colored noise. Assuming that input fluctuations are weaker than the mean neuronal drive, we derive simple formulas for the essential interspike-interval statistics for a canonical model of a tonically firing neuron subjected to arbitrarily correlated input from the network. We verify our theory by numerical simulations for three paradigmatic situations that lead to input correlations: (i) rate-coded naturalistic stimuli in presynaptic spike trains; (ii) presynaptic refractoriness or bursting; (iii) synaptic short-term plasticity. In all cases, we find severe effects on interval statistics. Our results provide a framework for the interpretation of firing statistics measured in vivo in the brain.

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Models, NeurologicalAction PotentialsAnimalsBrainHumansNeuronsStochastic ProcessesSynaptic TransmissionTime Factors

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PMID25936628
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