Noise effect on the temporal patterns of neural synchrony (Q6054926)

The article is dedicated to the eternally relevant topic: Reliability, synchronization and noise. In this article, the authors investigated the effect of channel noise on the temporal patterns of neural synchronization. A small network of conductance-based model neurons was used, which were interconnected by excitatory synapses. The resulting dynamics of the network was studied using the same time-series analysis methods as used in prior experimental and computational studies. The authors consider the effect of channel noise in individual neurons (multiplicative noise) as well as the effect of an additive noise on the temporal patterning of synchronized dynamics in a network of synaptically coupled model neurons. It is shown that both noise types can robustly alter the temporal patterning of the synchronized dynamics, effectively shortening desynchronization intervals while simultaneously making them more frequent.