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Cooperative dynamics in simple neural circuits
Eric Shea-Brown
University of Washington
Cooperative dynamics in simple neural circuits
The brain's networks contain numerous mechanisms that can lead to synchronized (or correlated) dynamics among cells. Moreover, different patterns of correlations can have a range of impacts on the fidelity with which a network encodes incoming signals -- degrading this coding, enhancing it, or doing very little at all. We'll explore simplified, feedforward circuit models in which the link between single-cell dynamics, coupling architecture, and correlation can be understood, and discuss a few basic consequences for neural coding.