Patterns of interval correlations in neural oscillators with adaptation

Neural firing is often subject to negative feedback by adaptation currents. These currents can induce strong correlations among the time intervals between spikes. Here we study analytically the interval correlations of a broad class of noisy neural oscillators with spike-triggered adaptation of arbi...

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Main Authors: Schwalger, Tilo, Lindner, Benjamin
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843362/
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spelling pubmed-38433622013-12-13 Patterns of interval correlations in neural oscillators with adaptation Schwalger, Tilo Lindner, Benjamin Neuroscience Neural firing is often subject to negative feedback by adaptation currents. These currents can induce strong correlations among the time intervals between spikes. Here we study analytically the interval correlations of a broad class of noisy neural oscillators with spike-triggered adaptation of arbitrary strength and time scale. Our weak-noise theory provides a general relation between the correlations and the phase-response curve (PRC) of the oscillator, proves anti-correlations between neighboring intervals for adapting neurons with type I PRC and identifies a single order parameter that determines the qualitative pattern of correlations. Monotonically decaying or oscillating correlation structures can be related to qualitatively different voltage traces after spiking, which can be explained by the phase plane geometry. At high firing rates, the long-term variability of the spike train associated with the cumulative interval correlations becomes small, independent of model details. Our results are verified by comparison with stochastic simulations of the exponential, leaky, and generalized integrate-and-fire models with adaptation. Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-11-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3843362/ /pubmed/24348372 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncom.2013.00164 Text en Copyright © 2013 Schwalger and Lindner. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Patterns of interval correlations in neural oscillators with adaptation
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title Patterns of interval correlations in neural oscillators with adaptation
title_short Patterns of interval correlations in neural oscillators with adaptation
title_full Patterns of interval correlations in neural oscillators with adaptation
title_fullStr Patterns of interval correlations in neural oscillators with adaptation
title_full_unstemmed Patterns of interval correlations in neural oscillators with adaptation
title_sort patterns of interval correlations in neural oscillators with adaptation
description Neural firing is often subject to negative feedback by adaptation currents. These currents can induce strong correlations among the time intervals between spikes. Here we study analytically the interval correlations of a broad class of noisy neural oscillators with spike-triggered adaptation of arbitrary strength and time scale. Our weak-noise theory provides a general relation between the correlations and the phase-response curve (PRC) of the oscillator, proves anti-correlations between neighboring intervals for adapting neurons with type I PRC and identifies a single order parameter that determines the qualitative pattern of correlations. Monotonically decaying or oscillating correlation structures can be related to qualitatively different voltage traces after spiking, which can be explained by the phase plane geometry. At high firing rates, the long-term variability of the spike train associated with the cumulative interval correlations becomes small, independent of model details. Our results are verified by comparison with stochastic simulations of the exponential, leaky, and generalized integrate-and-fire models with adaptation.
publisher Frontiers Media S.A.
publishDate 2013
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3843362/
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