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@INPROCEEDINGS{Voges:841132,
author = {Voges, Nicole and Dabrowska, Paulina and Senk, Johanna and
Hagen, Espen and Riehle, Alexa and Brochier, Thomas and
Grün, Sonja},
title = {{C}haracterization of resting state dynamics in monkey
motor cortex},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-08232},
year = {2017},
abstract = {Nowadays, modeling studies of cortical network dynamics aim
to include realistic assumptions on structural and
functional properties of the corresponding neurons [1,2].
Such models often do not consider functional aspects but
rather describe the “ground”, “idle”, or “resting
state” of the cortical network, typically characterized as
asynchronous irregular spiking [2]. However, for model
validation, i.e., for a concrete comparison of experimental
versus model data aiming at a more realistic model, one
needs to compare this cortical state to the corresponding
experimental data. Therefore we performed a “resting
state” experiment (this term is adapted from human fMRI
studies where it is defined as brain activity observed when
the subject is at rest [3]). We recorded the neuronal
activity from macaque monkey motor cortex with a chronically
implanted 4x4mm2 100 electrode Utah Array (Blackrock
Microsystems) for 15min, while the monkey was sitting in a
chair without any task or given stimulus. This is in
contrast to most neurophysiological studies that focus on a
task- or stimulus-specific analysis [e.g. 4]. Based on a
video recording of the monkey during the neuronal recording,
we differentiate between “resting” intervals and
intervals when the monkey spontaneously moved.The goal of
this study is to thoroughly characterize the simultaneous
spiking activity recorded from 146 single units during
resting state. To enable a detailed comparison to simulated
spiking data, we subdivide the single units into putative
excitatory and inhibitory neurons based on their spike
shapes [5]. We apply common statistical measures, e.g.,
firing rate, (local) coefficient of variation for single
unit characterization, and we also compute the pairwise fine
temporal correlation by correlation coefficients. These
measures are calculated in two ways: averaged over time and
single units, as well as averaged over time but separately
for each single unit (except for the correlation
coefficients). Comparing the distributions of these measures
from the two behavioral states we do not find any difference
– when averaging over single units. However, when focusing
on non-averaged, single unit data we notice that some
neurons increase their firing rates systematically when the
monkey moves compared to rest, whereas others decrease or do
not change their rates. Thus, there was seemingly no
difference on the population level, but significant
differences on the level of individual neurons. Moreover, we
observe a strong correlation between a few neuronal units,
independent of their cortical distance, while others show
lower or no correlation. Our next steps are to characterize
if such findings are particularly different for excitatory
and inhibitory neurons. Further, we aim to study the
underlying network mechanisms. One possibility would be to
re-consider the balancing effects of inhibition and
recurrence [5,6].},
month = {Jul},
date = {2017-07-15},
organization = {Computational Neuroscience Society,
Antwerpen (Belgium), 15 Jul 2017 - 20
Jul 2017},
cin = {INM-6 / IAS / INM-10 / AMU / JARA-BRAIN},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-6-20090406 / I:(DE-Juel1)VDB1106 /
I:(DE-Juel1)INM-10-20170113 / I:(DE-588b)1043886400 /
$I:(DE-82)080010_20140620$},
pnm = {571 - Connectivity and Activity (POF3-571) / DFG project
238707842 - Kausative Mechanismen mesoskopischer
Aktivitätsmuster in der auditorischen
Kategorien-Diskrimination (238707842) / SMHB -
Supercomputing and Modelling for the Human Brain
(HGF-SMHB-2013-2017) / HBP SGA1 - Human Brain Project
Specific Grant Agreement 1 (720270) / Smartstart -
SMARTSTART Training Program in Computational Neuroscience
(90251)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-571 / G:(GEPRIS)238707842 /
G:(DE-Juel1)HGF-SMHB-2013-2017 / G:(EU-Grant)720270 /
G:(EU-Grant)90251},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)1},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/841132},
}