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ArticleBiological cybernetics2017

A spiking neural network model of the midbrain superior colliculus that generates saccadic motor commands.

Bahadir Kasap, A John van Opstal

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Article in Biological cybernetics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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Bahadir KasapDepartment of Biophysics, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, HG00.800, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. b.kasap@donders.ru.nl.ORCID 0000-0002-5755-7307
A John van OpstalDepartment of Biophysics, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, HG00.800, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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European Research Council 693400
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-unit recordings suggest that the midbrain superior colliculus (SC) acts as an optimal controller for saccadic gaze shifts. The SC is proposed to be the site within the visuomotor system where the nonlinear spatial-to-temporal transformation is carried out: the population encodes the intended saccade vector by its location in the motor map (spatial), and its trajectory and velocity by the distribution of firing rates (temporal). The neurons' burst profiles vary systematically with their anatomical positions and intended saccade vectors, to account for the nonlinear main-sequence kinematics of saccades. Yet, the underlying collicular mechanisms that could result in these firing patterns are inaccessible to current neurobiological techniques. Here, we propose a simple spiking neural network model that reproduces the spike trains of saccade-related cells in the intermediate and deep SC layers during saccades. The model assumes that SC neurons have distinct biophysical properties for spike generation that depend on their anatomical position in combination with a center-surround lateral connectivity. Both factors are needed to account for the observed firing patterns. Our model offers a basis for neuronal algorithms for spatiotemporal transformations and bio-inspired optimal controllers.

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Action PotentialsNeural PathwaysAlgorithmsNerve NetSaccadesSuperior ColliculiMotor mapNonlinearityPulse generationSaccadesSpatial–temporal transformationSpiking neural networkSuperior colliculus

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PMID28528360
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