The asynchronous state in cortical circuits.
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SUBMITTER: Renart A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2861483 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
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The asynchronous state in cortical circuits.
Renart Alfonso A de la Rocha Jaime J Bartho Peter P Hollender Liad L Parga Néstor N Reyes Alex A Harris Kenneth D KD
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20100101 5965
Correlated spiking is often observed in cortical circuits, but its functional role is controversial. It is believed that correlations are a consequence of shared inputs between nearby neurons and could severely constrain information decoding. Here we show theoretically that recurrent neural networks can generate an asynchronous state characterized by arbitrarily low mean spiking correlations despite substantial amounts of shared input. In this state, spontaneous fluctuations in the activity of e ...[more]
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