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Spiking Neuron Models Single Neurons, Populations, Plasticity
Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Elements of Neuronal Systems
1.2 Elements of Neuronal Dynamics
1.3 A Phenomenological Neuron Model
1.4 The Problem of Neuronal Coding
1.5 Rate Codes
1.6 Spike Codes
1.7 Discussion: Spikes or Rates?
1.8 Summary
I. Single Neuron Models
2. Detailed Neuron Models
2.1 Equilibrium potential
2.2 Hodgkin-Huxley Model
2.3 The Zoo of Ion Channels
2.4 Synapses
2.5 Spatial Structure: The Dendritic Tree
2.6 Compartmental Models
2.7 Summary
3. Two-Dimensional Neuron Models
3.1 Reduction to two dimensions
3.2 Phase plane analysis
3.3 Threshold and excitability
3.4 Summary
4. Formal Spiking Neuron Models
4.1 Integrate-and-fire model
4.2 Spike response model (SRM)
4.3 From Detailed Models to Formal Spiking Neurons
4.4 Multi-compartment integrate-and-fire model
4.5 Application: Coding by Spikes
4.6 Summary
5. Noise in Spiking Neuron Models
5.1 Spike train variability
5.2 Statistics of spike trains
5.3 Escape noise
5.4 Slow noise in the parameters
5.5 Diffusive noise
5.6 The subthreshold regime
5.7 From diffusive noise to escape noise
5.8 Stochastic resonance
5.9 Stochastic firing and rate models
5.10 Summary
II. Population Models
6. Population Equations
6.1 Fully Connected Homogeneous Network
6.2 Density Equations
6.3 Integral Equations for the Population Activity
6.4 Asynchronous firing
6.5 Interacting Populations and Continuum Models
6.6 Limitations
6.7 Summary
7. Signal Transmission and Neuronal Coding
7.1 Linearized Population Equation
7.2 Transients
7.3 Transfer Function
7.4 The Significance of a Single Spike
7.5 Summary
8. Oscillations and Synchrony
8.1 Instability of the Asynchronous State
8.2 Synchronized Oscillations and Locking
8.3 Oscillations in reverberating loops
8.4 Summary
9. Spatially Structured Networks
9.1 Stationary patterns of neuronal activity
9.2 Dynamic patterns of neuronal activity
9.3 Patterns of spike activity
9.4 Robust transmission of temporal information
9.5 Summary
III. Models of Synaptic Plasticity
10. Hebbian Models
10.1 Synaptic Plasticity
10.2 Rate-Based Hebbian Learning
10.3 Spike-Time Dependent Plasticity
10.4 Detailed Models of Synaptic Plasticity
10.5 Summary
11. Learning Equations
11.1 Learning in Rate Models
11.2 Learning in Spiking Models
11.3 Summary
12. Plasticity and Coding
12.1 Learning to be Fast
12.2 Learning to be Precise
12.3 Sequence Learning
12.4 Subtraction of Expectations
12.5 Transmission of Temporal Codes
Summary
Bibliography
Index
Footnotes
Chapter1.pdf
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Book: Spiking Neuron Models by W. Gerstner and W.M. Kistler
Preface: Spiking Neuron Models by W. Gerstner and W.M. Kistler
1. Introduction
1.1 Elements of Neuronal Systems
1.2 Elements of Neuronal Dynamics
1.3 A Phenomenological Neuron Model
1.4 The Problem of Neuronal Coding
1.5 Rate Codes
1.6 Spike Codes
1.7 Discussion: Spikes or Rates?
1.8 Summary