Encoding in Balanced Networks: Revisiting Spike Patterns and Chaos in Stimulus-Driven Systems.
Highly connected recurrent neural networks often produce chaotic dynamics, meaning their precise activity is sensitive to small perturbations. What are the consequences of chaos for how such networks encode streams of temporal stimuli? On the one hand, chaos is a strong source of randomness, suggest...
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doaj-3f05dbf9db884766b71c9b14ee2eb7052020-11-25T02:20:15ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582016-12-011212e100525810.1371/journal.pcbi.1005258Encoding in Balanced Networks: Revisiting Spike Patterns and Chaos in Stimulus-Driven Systems.Guillaume LajoieKevin K LinJean-Philippe ThiviergeEric Shea-BrownHighly connected recurrent neural networks often produce chaotic dynamics, meaning their precise activity is sensitive to small perturbations. What are the consequences of chaos for how such networks encode streams of temporal stimuli? On the one hand, chaos is a strong source of randomness, suggesting that small changes in stimuli will be obscured by intrinsically generated variability. On the other hand, recent work shows that the type of chaos that occurs in spiking networks can have a surprisingly low-dimensional structure, suggesting that there may be room for fine stimulus features to be precisely resolved. Here we show that strongly chaotic networks produce patterned spikes that reliably encode time-dependent stimuli: using a decoder sensitive to spike times on timescales of 10's of ms, one can easily distinguish responses to very similar inputs. Moreover, recurrence serves to distribute signals throughout chaotic networks so that small groups of cells can encode substantial information about signals arriving elsewhere. A conclusion is that the presence of strong chaos in recurrent networks need not exclude precise encoding of temporal stimuli via spike patterns.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5156368?pdf=render |
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Guillaume Lajoie Kevin K Lin Jean-Philippe Thivierge Eric Shea-Brown Encoding in Balanced Networks: Revisiting Spike Patterns and Chaos in Stimulus-Driven Systems. PLoS Computational Biology |
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Guillaume Lajoie Kevin K Lin Jean-Philippe Thivierge Eric Shea-Brown |
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Encoding in Balanced Networks: Revisiting Spike Patterns and Chaos in Stimulus-Driven Systems. |
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Encoding in Balanced Networks: Revisiting Spike Patterns and Chaos in Stimulus-Driven Systems. |
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Encoding in Balanced Networks: Revisiting Spike Patterns and Chaos in Stimulus-Driven Systems. |
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Encoding in Balanced Networks: Revisiting Spike Patterns and Chaos in Stimulus-Driven Systems. |
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Encoding in Balanced Networks: Revisiting Spike Patterns and Chaos in Stimulus-Driven Systems. |
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encoding in balanced networks: revisiting spike patterns and chaos in stimulus-driven systems. |
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Highly connected recurrent neural networks often produce chaotic dynamics, meaning their precise activity is sensitive to small perturbations. What are the consequences of chaos for how such networks encode streams of temporal stimuli? On the one hand, chaos is a strong source of randomness, suggesting that small changes in stimuli will be obscured by intrinsically generated variability. On the other hand, recent work shows that the type of chaos that occurs in spiking networks can have a surprisingly low-dimensional structure, suggesting that there may be room for fine stimulus features to be precisely resolved. Here we show that strongly chaotic networks produce patterned spikes that reliably encode time-dependent stimuli: using a decoder sensitive to spike times on timescales of 10's of ms, one can easily distinguish responses to very similar inputs. Moreover, recurrence serves to distribute signals throughout chaotic networks so that small groups of cells can encode substantial information about signals arriving elsewhere. A conclusion is that the presence of strong chaos in recurrent networks need not exclude precise encoding of temporal stimuli via spike patterns. |
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