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@INPROCEEDINGS{Bos:256315,
author = {Bos, Hannah and Schücker, Jannis and Diesmann, Markus and
Helias, Moritz},
title = {{I}dentifying and exploiting the anatomical origin of
population rate oscillations in spiking networks},
reportid = {FZJ-2015-06278},
year = {2015},
abstract = {Fast oscillations of the population firing rate in the high
gamma range (50-200 Hz), where individual neurons fire
slowly and irregularly, are observed in the living brain and
in network models of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons,
that have also been studied analytically [1]. However, a
systematic approach identifying sub-circuits responsible for
specific oscillations in a structured network of neural
populations is currently unavailable.We consider a
large-scale, neural network consisting of 4 layers each
composed of an excitatory and inhibitory population of
LIF-neurons with connectivity determined by
electrophysiological and anatomical studies [2]. In
simulations we observe a peak in the power spectrum around
83 Hz in all populations and low frequency oscillations with
smaller power in a subset of the populations. Mapping the
dynamics of the fluctuations to an effective linear rate
model, using the recently derived transfer function for
LIF-neurons with synaptic filtering [3], we derive the
spectra of the population firing rates
analytically.Decomposing the noise-driven fluctuations into
eigenmodes of the effective connectivity, we identify the
modes responsible for peaks in the spectra. Applying
perturbation theory, we quantify the influence of individual
anatomical connections on the spectrum at given frequencies
and identify a sub-circuitry, localized in the
supra-granular and granular layer, generating the
oscillation. These findings are in agreement with
layer-specific local field potential measurements in the
Macaque primary visual cortex, where gamma-frequency
oscillations were mostly pronounced in layer 2,3 and 4B [4].
We exploit this method i) to identify the connectivity loops
responsible for the observed peaks and ii) to alter the
circuitry in a targeted manner to control the position and
amplitude of the peaks and the generation of slow frequency
fluctuations. This requires removal and addition of only
small numbers of synapses. The analytical framework moreover
explains the suppression of higher frequencies by
distributed delays and the amplification of population
specific oscillatory input. Mapping the stimulus vector onto
the eigenmodes of the system shows how the components of the
input vector are processed in the network. Thus one can
derive the sensitivity of the population rate dynamics to
the direction and frequency of stimuli.Our method finds
application in the identification of the connectivity loops
that determine emergent and externally driven global
measures of activity observable in experiments as well as in
engineering circuits that exhibit desired correlations on
the population level.},
month = {Jul},
date = {2015-07-18},
organization = {CNS 2015 Prague, Prague (Czech
Republic), 18 Jul 2015 - 23 Jul 2015},
subtyp = {Other},
cin = {INM-6 / IAS-6},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-6-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)IAS-6-20130828},
pnm = {571 - Connectivity and Activity (POF3-571) / 89571 -
Connectivity and Activity (POF2-89571) / HASB - Helmholtz
Alliance on Systems Biology (HGF-SystemsBiology) / MSNN -
Theory of multi-scale neuronal networks (HGF-SMHB-2014-2018)
/ SMHB - Supercomputing and Modelling for the Human Brain
(HGF-SMHB-2013-2017)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-571 / G:(DE-HGF)POF2-89571 /
G:(DE-Juel1)HGF-SystemsBiology /
G:(DE-Juel1)HGF-SMHB-2014-2018 /
G:(DE-Juel1)HGF-SMHB-2013-2017},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/256315},
}