Distributed synchrony of spiking neurons in a Hebbian cell assembly

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Abstract

We investigate the behavior of a Hebbian cell assembly of spiking neurons formed via a temporal synaptic learning curve. This learning function is based on recent experimental findings. It includes potentiation for short time delays between pre-and post-synaptic neuronal spiking, and depression for spiking events occuring in the reverse order. The coupling between the dynamics of the synaptic learning and of the neuronal activation leads to interesting results. We find that the cell assembly can fire asynchronously, but may also function in complete synchrony, or in distributed synchrony. The latter implies spontaneous division of the Hebbian cell assembly into groups of cells that fire in a cyclic manner. We invetigate the behavior of distributed synchrony both by simulations and by analytic calculations of the resulting synaptic distributions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 12 - Proceedings of the 1999 Conference, NIPS 1999
PublisherNeural information processing systems foundation
Pages129-135
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)0262194503, 9780262194501
StatePublished - 2000
Event13th Annual Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, NIPS 1999 - Denver, CO, United States
Duration: 29 Nov 19994 Dec 1999

Publication series

NameAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems
ISSN (Print)1049-5258

Conference

Conference13th Annual Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, NIPS 1999
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver, CO
Period29/11/994/12/99

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