Feedforward architectures driven by inhibitory interactions

DOI10.1007/S10827-017-0669-1MaRDI QIDQ1628213zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yazan N. Billeh, Michael T. Schaub

Publication date 4 December 2018

Published in Journal of Computational Neuroscience (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.04905, https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20171120-074949795

zbMATH Keywords

feedforward networksinformation propagationinhibitory feedbackleaky-integrate-and-fireneural networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Neural biology (92C20)

Abstract: Directed information transmission is paramount for many social, physical, and biological systems. For neural systems, scientists have studied this problem under the paradigm of feedforward networks for decades. In most models of feedforward networks, activity is exclusively driven by excitatory neurons and the wiring patterns between them, while inhibitory neurons play only a stabilizing role for the network dynamics. Motivated by recent experimental discoveries of hippocampal circuitry, cortical circuitry, and the diversity of inhibitory neurons throughout the brain, here we illustrate that one can construct such networks even if the connectivity between the excitatory units in the system remains random. This is achieved by endowing inhibitory nodes with a more active role in the network. Our findings demonstrate that apparent feedforward activity can be caused by a much broader network-architectural basis than often assumed.

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