Title |
Building Blocks of Self-Sustained Activity in a Simple Deterministic Model of Excitable Neural Networks
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Published in |
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, January 2012
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DOI | 10.3389/fncom.2012.00050 |
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Authors |
Guadalupe C. Garcia, Annick Lesne, Marc-Thorsten Hütt, Claus C. Hilgetag |
Abstract |
Understanding the interplay of topology and dynamics of excitable neural networks is one of the major challenges in computational neuroscience. Here we employ a simple deterministic excitable model to explore how network-wide activation patterns are shaped by network architecture. Our observables are co-activation patterns, together with the average activity of the network and the periodicities in the excitation density. Our main results are: (1) the dependence of the correlation between the adjacency matrix and the instantaneous (zero time delay) co-activation matrix on global network features (clustering, modularity, scale-free degree distribution), (2) a correlation between the average activity and the amount of small cycles in the graph, and (3) a microscopic understanding of the contributions by 3-node and 4-node cycles to sustained activity. |
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