Sub-threshold neuronal activity and the dynamical regime of cerebral cortex
biorxiv(2022)
摘要
Cortical neurons exhibit temporally irregular spiking patterns and heterogeneous firing rates. These features arise in model circuits operating in a ‘fluctuation-driven regime’, in which fluctuations in membrane potentials emerge from the network dynamics. However, it is still unclear whether the cortex operates in this regime. We evaluated the fluctuation-driven hypothesis by analyzing spiking and sub-threshold membrane potentials of neurons in the sensory and frontal cortex recorded during a decision-making task. Standard fluctuation-driven models account for spiking statistics but fail to capture the heterogeneity in sub-threshold activity. We address this issue by effectively incorporating dendritic conductances into the standard models. Our model suggests that the frontal cortex operates in a fluctuation-driven regime. In contrast, excitatory neurons in layer 4 of the barrel cortex are not fluctuation-driven; they spike in response to occasional synchronous inputs. Our work reveals fundamental differences between cortical areas, suggesting that they operate in different dynamical regimes.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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关键词
neuronal activity,dynamical regime,sub-threshold
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