Global oscillation regime change by gated inhibition.

Journal: Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
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Abstract

The role of sensory inputs in the modelling of synchrony regimes is exhibited by means of networks of spiking cells where the relative strength of the inhibitory interaction is controlled by the activation of a linear unit working as a gating variable. Adaptation to stimulus size is determined by the value of a changing length scale, modelled by the time-varying radius of a circular receptive field. In this set-up, 'consolidation' time intervals relevant to attentional effects are shown to depend on the dynamics governing the evolution of the introduced length scale.

Authors

  • August Romeo
    Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain.
  • Hans Supèr
    Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Neurosciences, Faculty of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain; Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Spain. Electronic address: hans.super@icrea.cat.