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2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Mathematical study on coding and ergodicity in a model brain

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15016023
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Review Section Biological Sciences
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

AIHARA Kazuyuki  The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Science, Professor, 生産技術研究所, 教授 (40167218)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SUZUKI Hideyuki  The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Research Assistant, 大学院情報理工学系研究科, 助手 (60334257)
MAKINO Takaki  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, 特別研究員
Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2004
Keywordsneural network / ergodicity / rate coding / spike coding / synchronization / learning / reproducibility / mathematical models
Research Abstract

In most electrophysiological experiments, it is often the case that experimenters present the same stimulation repeatedly and investigates trial average of activities of one or a few neurons. One important research topic to understain the brain function mechanism from such experiments is the "physiological ergodicity problem", which pursues conditions that "trial average of a single neuron" and "ensemble average of the responses of neurons to a single input" are equivalent. In this research, we analyzed the spatio-temporal spike coding and the ergodicity with mathematical models.
First, we analysed dynamics of network that models the cerebral cortex, to clarify nonlinear interactions of the neurons, which influence the reproducibility of neuronal responses. As a result, we should that the firing sequence is highly reproducible in cases of shorter internal memory and smaller influence of internal connections than external inputs. In addition, we studied dynamics of the cluster state betw … More een synchronous and asynchronous states the connection structure of the cluster generation, and dependency to synaptic learning.
Next, we investigated relations among nonlinear spatio-temporal dynamics of the neural network model, noise, network structure, and learning. Based on the STDP (Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity) learning rule and the network architecture, we clarified that coexistence of various coding and cluster formation can be self-organized when there are two or more input sources. Further, by introducing Mexican-hat type connections to Synfire-Chain models, we showed the possibility of coding the stimulus strength into the size of the activated area and the existence of two non-trivial stable states of the isolated local excitation and the uniform excitation. We also studied the relation between the small-world network structure and spatio-temporal dynamics. In addition, we examined relations between ergodicity and noise in terms of synchronous firing and possible functions of depolarizing GABA in information coding. Less

  • Research Products

    (17 results)

All 2005 2004

All Journal Article (13 results) Book (4 results)

  • [Journal Article] Possible Effects of Depolarizing GABA_A Conductance on the Neuronal Input-Output Relationship : A Modeling Study2005

    • Author(s)
      K.Morita, K.Aihara
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Neurophysiology 93

      Pages: 3504-3523

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Self-organizing Dual Coding based on Spike-time-dependent Plasticity2004

    • Author(s)
      N.Masuda, K.Aihara
    • Journal Title

      Neural Computation 16

      Pages: 627-663

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Global and Local Synchrony of Coupled Neurons in Small-world Networks2004

    • Author(s)
      N.Masuda, K.Aihara
    • Journal Title

      Biological Cybernetics 90

      Pages: 302-309

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Quantitative Information Transfer through Layers of Spiking Neurons Connected by Mexican-Hat-type Connectigvity2004

    • Author(s)
      K.Hamaguchi, K.Aihara
    • Journal Title

      Neurocomputing 58

      Pages: 85-90

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Dual Coding and Effects of Global Feedback in Multilayered Neural Networks2004

    • Author(s)
      N.Masuda, K.Aihara
    • Journal Title

      Neurocomputing 58

      Pages: 33-39

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] An Explanation of Contextual Modulation by Short-range Isotropic Connections and Orientation Map Geometry in the Primary Visual Cortex2004

    • Author(s)
      T.Okamoto, M.Watanabe, K.Aihara, S.Kondo
    • Journal Title

      Biological Cybernetics 91

      Pages: 396-407

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Analysis of the Hodgkin-Huxley Equations with Noise : the Effects of Noise on Chaotic Neurodynamics2004

    • Author(s)
      H.Tanaka, K.Aihara
    • Journal Title

      Artificial Life and Robotics 8

      Pages: 190-196

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] メキシカンハット型結合をもつSynfire Chain の理論2004

    • Author(s)
      濱口航介, 岡田真人, 山名美智子, 合原一幸
    • Journal Title

      電子情報通信学会論文誌 D-II J87-D-II

      Pages: 1689-1696

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Self-organizing dual coding based on spike-time-dependent plasticity2004

    • Author(s)
      N.Masuda, K.Aihara
    • Journal Title

      Neural Computation 16

      Pages: 627-663

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Quantitative Information Transfer through Layers of Spiking Neurons Connected by Mexican-Hat-type Connectigvity2004

    • Author(s)
      K.Hamaguchi, K.Aihara
    • Journal Title

      Neurocomputing 58-60

      Pages: 85-90

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Dual Coding and Effects of Global Feedback in Multilayered Neural Networks2004

    • Author(s)
      N.Masuda, K.Aihara
    • Journal Title

      Neurocomputing 58-60

      Pages: 33-39

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] An Explanation of Contextual Modulation by Short-range Isotropic Connections and Orientation Map Geometry in the Primary Visual Cortex2004

    • Author(s)
      T.Okamoto, M.Watanabe, K.Aihara, S.Kondo
    • Journal Title

      Biological Cybernetics 91(6)

      Pages: 396-407

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Theory of Synfire Chain with Mexican-Hat Connectivity (in Japanese)2004

    • Author(s)
      K.Hamaguchi, M.Okada, M.Yamana, K.Aihara
    • Journal Title

      The IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, PT.2 (Japanese Edition) J87-D-II-8

      Pages: 1689-1696

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] 脳はここまで解明された-内なる宇宙の神秘に挑む-2004

    • Author(s)
      合原一幸 編著
    • Total Pages
      204
    • Publisher
      ウェッジ
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] <1分子>生物学2004

    • Author(s)
      合原一幸, 岡田康志 編
    • Total Pages
      188
    • Publisher
      岩波書店
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] What is known about the Brain : Challenging to Secrets of the Internal Universe.2004

    • Author(s)
      K.Aihara (Ed.)
    • Total Pages
      204
    • Publisher
      Wedge
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] One-Molecular Biology2004

    • Author(s)
      K.Aihara, Y.Okada (Ed.)
    • Total Pages
      188
    • Publisher
      Iwanami
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2008-05-27  

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