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Recent experiments revealed that inhibitory interneurons networks are coupled by both electrical and inhibitory synapses. Moreover these findings suggest that a population of interneurons operate as a clockwork affecting the processing of neural information. In this paper we determine, in the weak coupling limit, the parameter values leading to the emergence of synchronous regime in a pair of Fast Spiking interneurons coupled by chemical and electrical synapses. Then, our results will be compared with those obtained recently in [1] for a pair of coupled Integrate & Fire neural models. Next, the effects of heterogeneities and noise on the coherence properties of the network (containing two or more coupled units) will be investigated numerically.
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Chillemi, S., Panarese, A., Barbi, M., Di Garbo, A. (2005). Gap-Junctions Promote Synchrony in a Network of Inhibitory Interneurons in the Presence of Heterogeneities and Noise. In: Mira, J., Álvarez, J.R. (eds) Mechanisms, Symbols, and Models Underlying Cognition. IWINAC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3561. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11499220_8
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