Velocity integration in a multilayer neural field model of spatial working memory

DOI10.1137/16M1102471MaRDI QIDQ5278041zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Daniel B. Poll, Zachary P. Kilpatrick

Publication date 13 July 2017

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02116

zbMATH Keywords

bump attractorsmultilayer networksneural fieldsperturbation theorystochastic differential equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbations of ordinary differential equations (34D10) Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H10) Neural networks for/in biological studies, artificial life and related topics (92B20)

Abstract: We analyze a multilayer neural field model of spatial working memory, focusing on the impact of interlaminar connectivity, spatial heterogeneity, and velocity inputs. Models of spatial working memory typically employ networks that generate persistent activity via a combination of local excitation and lateral inhibition. Our model is comprised of a multilayer set of equations that describes connectivity between neurons in the same and different layers using an integral term. The kernel of this integral term then captures the impact of different interlaminar connection strengths, spatial heterogeneity, and velocity input. We begin our analysis by focusing on how interlaminar connectivity shapes the form and stability of (persistent) bump attractor solutions to the model. Subsequently, we derive a low-dimensional approximation that describes how spatial heterogeneity, velocity input, and noise combine to determine the position of bump solutions. The main impact of spatial heterogeneity is to break the translation symmetry of the network, so bumps prefer to reside at one of a finite number of local attractors in the domain. With the reduced model in hand, we can then approximate the dynamics of the bump position using a continuous time Markov chain model that describes bump motion between local attractors. While heterogeneity reduces the effective diffusion of the bumps, it also disrupts the processing of velocity inputs by slowing the velocity-induced propagation of bumps. However, we demonstrate that noise can play a constructive role by promoting bump motion transitions, restoring a mean bump velocity that is close to the input velocity.

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