Graded, Dynamically Routable Information Processing with Synfire-Gated Synfire Chains.

ABSTRACT: Coherent neural spiking and local field potentials are believed to be signatures of the binding and transfer of information in the brain. Coherent activity has now been measured experimentally in many regions of mammalian cortex. Recently experimental evidence has been presented suggesting that neural information is encoded and transferred in packets, i.e., in stereotypical, correlated spiking patterns of neural activity. Due to their relevance to coherent spiking, synfire chains are one of the main theoretical constructs that have been appealed to in order to describe coherent spiking and information transfer phenomena. However, for some time, it has been known that synchronous activity in feedforward networks asymptotically either approaches an attractor with fixed waveform and amplitude

SUBMITTER: Wang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4911121 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature