Synaptic energy drives the information processing mechanisms in spiking neural networks
Flow of energy and free energy minimization underpins almost every aspect of naturally occurring physical mechanisms. Inspired by this fact this work establishes an energy-based framework that spans the multi-scale range of biological neural systems and integrates synaptic dynamic, synchronous spiki...
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| description | Flow of energy and free energy minimization underpins almost every aspect of naturally occurring physical mechanisms. Inspired by this fact this work establishes an energy-based framework that spans the multi-scale range of biological neural systems and integrates synaptic dynamic, synchronous spiking activity and neural states into one consistent working paradigm. Following a bottom-up approach, a hypothetical energy function is proposed for dynamic synaptic models based on the theoretical thermodynamic principles and the Hopfield networks. We show that a synapse exposes stable operating points in terms of its excitatory postsynaptic potential as a function of its synaptic strength. We postulate that synapses in a network operating at these stable points can drive this network to an internal state of synchronous firing. The presented analysis is related to the widely investigated temporal coherent activities (cell assemblies) over a certain range of time scales (binding-by-synchrony). This introduces a novel explanation of the observed (poly)synchronous activities within networks regarding the synaptic (coupling) functionality. On a network level the transitions from one firing scheme to the other express discrete sets of neural states. The neural states exist as long as the network sustains the internal synaptic energy. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-cd9a4114d70c46c6be6351f66391fc182025-01-24T02:28:02ZengAIMS PressMathematical Biosciences and Engineering1551-00182013-09-0111223325610.3934/mbe.2014.11.233Synaptic energy drives the information processing mechanisms in spiking neural networksKarim El Laithy0Martin Bogdan1Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Leipzig UniversityFaculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Engineering, Leipzig UniversityFlow of energy and free energy minimization underpins almost every aspect of naturally occurring physical mechanisms. Inspired by this fact this work establishes an energy-based framework that spans the multi-scale range of biological neural systems and integrates synaptic dynamic, synchronous spiking activity and neural states into one consistent working paradigm. Following a bottom-up approach, a hypothetical energy function is proposed for dynamic synaptic models based on the theoretical thermodynamic principles and the Hopfield networks. We show that a synapse exposes stable operating points in terms of its excitatory postsynaptic potential as a function of its synaptic strength. We postulate that synapses in a network operating at these stable points can drive this network to an internal state of synchronous firing. The presented analysis is related to the widely investigated temporal coherent activities (cell assemblies) over a certain range of time scales (binding-by-synchrony). This introduces a novel explanation of the observed (poly)synchronous activities within networks regarding the synaptic (coupling) functionality. On a network level the transitions from one firing scheme to the other express discrete sets of neural states. The neural states exist as long as the network sustains the internal synaptic energy.https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/mbe.2014.11.233neural states.dynamic networksdynamic synapsessynaptic energy |
| spellingShingle | Karim El Laithy Martin Bogdan Synaptic energy drives the information processing mechanisms in spiking neural networks Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering neural states. dynamic networks dynamic synapses synaptic energy |
| title | Synaptic energy drives the information processing mechanisms in spiking neural networks |
| title_full | Synaptic energy drives the information processing mechanisms in spiking neural networks |
| title_fullStr | Synaptic energy drives the information processing mechanisms in spiking neural networks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Synaptic energy drives the information processing mechanisms in spiking neural networks |
| title_short | Synaptic energy drives the information processing mechanisms in spiking neural networks |
| title_sort | synaptic energy drives the information processing mechanisms in spiking neural networks |
| topic | neural states. dynamic networks dynamic synapses synaptic energy |
| url | https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/mbe.2014.11.233 |
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