Effect of the Background Activity on the Reconstruction of Spike Train by Spike Pattern Detection

Deterministic nonlinearity has been observed in experimental electrophysiological recordings performed in several areas of the brain. However, little is known about the ability to transmit a complex temporally organized activity through different types of spiking neurons. This study investigates the response of a spiking neuron model representing five archetypical types to input spike trains including deterministic information generated by a chaotic attractor. The comparison between input and output spike trains is carried out by the pattern grouping algorithm (PGA) as a function of the intensity of the background activity for each neuronal type. The results show that the thalamo-cortical, regular spiking and intrinsically busting model neurons can be good candidate in transmitting temporal information with different characteristics in a spatially organized neural network.

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