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Modified firing-rate model reproduces synchronization of a neuronal population receiving complex input

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Synchronization plays important role in generation of brain activity patterns. Experimental data show that neurons demonstrate more reproducible activity for noise-like input than for constant current injection, and that effect can not be reproduced by standard oversimplified Firing-Rate (FR) models. The paper proposes a modification of FR model which reproduces these kinds of activity. The FR model approximates the firing rate of an infinite number of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons, considered as a population, and in contrary to conventional models it accounts for not only a steady-state firing regime but a fast rising excitation as well. Comparison of our simulations with the experimental data shows that the synchronous firing of the neuronal population strongly depends on the synchrony of neuronal states just before spiking. This effect is reproduced by the proposed FR model in contrary to the conventional FR models and is in agreement with the direct Monte-Carlo simulation of individual neurons.

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Buchin, A.J., Chizhov, A.V. Modified firing-rate model reproduces synchronization of a neuronal population receiving complex input. Opt. Mem. Neural Networks 19, 166–171 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1060992X10020074

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