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Computational Modeling of Retinal Neurons for Visual Prosthesis Research - Fundamental Approaches
Published on: June 21, 2022
Conductance-based refractory density model of primary visual cortex
1A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of RAS, Politekhnicheskaya str., 26, 194021, St.-Petersburg, Russia, anton.chizhov@mail.ioffe.ru.
Abstract:
A layered continual population model of primary visual cortex has been constructed, which reproduces a set of experimental data, including postsynaptic responses of single neurons on extracellular electric stimulation and spatially distributed activity patterns in response to visual stimulation. In the model, synaptically interacting excitatory and inhibitory neuronal populations are described by a conductance-based refractory density approach. Populations of two-compartment excitatory and inhibitory neurons in cortical layers 2/3 and 4 are distributed in the 2-d cortical space and connected by AMPA, NMDA and GABA type synapses. The external connections are pinwheel-like, according to the orientation of a stimulus. Intracortical connections are isotropic local and patchy between neurons with similar orientations. The model proposes better temporal resolution and more detailed elaboration than conventional mean-field models. In comparison to large network simulations, it excludes a posteriori statistical data manipulation and provides better computational efficiency and minimal parametrization.
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