Date
Thu, 22 Oct 2015
Time
16:00 - 17:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Alex Cayco Gajic
Organisation
UCL

Feedforward layers are integral step in processing and transmitting sensory information across different regions the brain. Yet experiments reveal the difficulty of stable propagation through layers without causing neurons to synchronize their activity. We study the limits of stable propagation in a discrete feedforward model of binary neurons. By analyzing the spectral properties of a mean-field Markov chain model, we show when such information transmission persists. Addition of inhibitory neurons and synaptic noise increases the robustness of asynchronous rate transmission. We close with an example of feedforward processing in the input layer to cerebellum. 

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