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Stationary transmission distribution of random spike trains by dynamical synapses
1Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974, USA.
Abstract:
Many nonlinearities in neural media are strongly dependent on spike timing jitter and intrinsic dynamics of synaptic transmission. Here we are interested in the stationary density of evoked postsynaptic potentials transmitted by depressing synapses for Poisson spike trains of fixed mean rates. We present a nonperturbative iterative method for computing the stationary density over increasing intervals. We conclude by showing how this method generalizes to other types of synapses, such as facilitating and hybrid synapses.
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