Summary
International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications
2010
Session Number:A2L-D
Session:
Number:A2L-D1
Neuronal Avalanches Induced by Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity
Shuhei Ohno, Hideyuki Kato, Tohru Ikeguchi,
pp.119-122
Publication Date:2010/9/5
Online ISSN:2188-5079
Summary:
Recent studies in the neuroscience have reported that neuronal avalanches are observed in cortical areas of the brain. The neuronal avalanches are considered as one of the mechanisms of memory functions in the brain. However, it still remains elusive what is a key mechanism to produce neuronal avalanches. To solve this question, we introduce spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) as a candidate for the mechanism to induce the neuronal avalanches because STDP constructs functional cortical circuits. In this paper, based on this idea, we analyzed neuronal activities in networks constructed through STDP from viewpoints of neuronal avalanche.