Structure and dynamics of self-organized neuronal network with an improved STDP rule

The chemical synapses in a neural network are known to be modulated by the neuronal firing activities through the spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) rule. In this paper, we improve the multiplicative STDP rule by adding a momentum item with the aim of overcoming the low rate with which the neuronal network self-organizes into a stable complex structure. We find that the improved STDP rule with suitable momentum factors significantly speeds up the evolutionary process of the self-organized neuronal network. In addition, we explore the topological structure of self-organized neuronal network using complex network method. We show that the improved STDP rule generally results in a smaller node degree, clustering coefficient and modularity of self-organized neuronal network. Furthermore, we investigate the dynamical behaviors of self-organized neuronal network. We observe that depending on the momentum factor, the improved STDP rule has different effects on the network synchronization, neural information transmission, modularity and network complexity. Remarkably, for a specific momentum factor, the self-organized neuronal network shows the highest global efficiency of information transmission and the best combination between functional segregation and integration, which reflects the optimal dynamics as well as the topological structure. Our results provide a reasonable and efficient modulating rule of chemical synapse underlying the neuronal firing activities.

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