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Automated High-Throughput Characterization of Single Neurons by Means of Simplified Spiking Models

Wulfram Gerstner, Richard Naud, Skander Mensi, Christian Antonio Pozzorini, Olivier Richard Hagens

Single-neuron models are useful not only for studying the emergent properties of neural circuits in large-scale simulations, but also for extracting and summarizing in a principled way the information contained in electrophysiological recordings. Here we d ...

Public Library of Science2015

Fluctuations and information filtering in coupled populations of spiking neurons with adaptation

Wulfram Gerstner, Tilo Schwalger, Richard Naud, Moritz Deger

Finite-sized populations of spiking elements are fundamental to brain function but also are used in many areas of physics. Here we present a theory of the dynamics of finite-sized populations of spiking units, based on a quasirenewal description of neurons ...

2014

Spike-timing prediction in cortical neurons with active dendrites

Wulfram Gerstner, Richard Naud, Brice Bathellier

A complete single-neuron model must correctly reproduce the firing of spikes and bursts. We present a study of a simplified model of deep pyramidal cells of the cortex with active dendrites. We hypothesized that we can model the soma and its apical dendrit ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2014

Temporal whitening by power-law adaptation in neocortical neurons

Wulfram Gerstner, Richard Naud, Skander Mensi, Christian Antonio Pozzorini

Spike-frequency adaptation (SFA) is widespread in the CNS, but its function remains unclear. In neocortical pyramidal neurons, adaptation manifests itself by an increase in the firing threshold and by adaptation currents triggered after each spike. Combini ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Parameter extraction and classification of three cortical neuron types reveals two distinct adaptation mechanisms

Wulfram Gerstner, Carl Petersen, Richard Naud, Skander Mensi, Christian Antonio Pozzorini, Michael Avermann

Mensi S, Naud R, Pozzorini C, Avermann M, Petersen CCH, Gerstner W. Parameter extraction and classification of three cortical neuron types reveals two distinct adaptation mechanisms. J Neurophysiol 107: 1756-1775, 2012. First published December 7, 2011; do ...

American Physiological Society2012

Coding and Decoding with Adapting Neurons: A Population Approach to the Peri-Stimulus Time Histogram

Wulfram Gerstner, Richard Naud

The response of a neuron to a time-dependent stimulus, as measured in a Peri-Stimulus-Time-Histogram (PSTH), exhibits an intricate temporal structure that reflects potential temporal coding principles. Here we analyze the encoding and decoding of PSTHs for ...

Public Library of Science2012

Improved Similarity Measures for Small Sets of Spike Trains

Wulfram Gerstner, Richard Naud, Skander Mensi, Joao Emanuel Felipe Gerhard

Multiple measures have been developed to quantify the similarity between two spike trains. These measures have been used for the quantification of the mismatch between neuron models and experiments as well as for the classification of neuronal responses in ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press2011

The Dynamics of Adapting Neurons

Richard Naud

How do neurons dynamically encode and treat information? Each neuron communicates with its distinctive language made of long silences intermitted by occasional spikes. The spikes are prompted by the pooled effect of a population of pre-synaptic neurons. To ...

EPFL2011

Complexity and performance in simple neuron models

Wulfram Gerstner, Richard Naud, Skander Mensi

The ability of simple mathematical models to predict the activity of single neurons is important for computational neuroscience. In neurons, stimulated by a time-dependent current or conductance, we want to predict precisely the timing of spikes and the su ...

2010

Spike-timing prediction in a neuron model with active dendrites

Wulfram Gerstner, Richard Naud, Brice Bathellier

A complete model for single neurons must reproduce correctly the firing of spikes and bursts. Yet it must remain simple enough to be tractable in large-scale simulations. We present a study of a simplified model of Layer V pyramidal cells of the cortex wit ...

2009