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Stationary Bumps in Networks of Spiking Neurons

Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260, U.S.A.

Carson C. Chow

Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA 15260, U.S.A.

We examine the existence and stability of spatially localized "bumps" of neuronal activity in a network of spiking neurons. Bumps have been proposed in mechanisms of visual orientation tuning, the rat head direction system, and working memory. We show that a bump solution can exist in a spiking network provided the neurons fire asynchronously within the bump. We consider a parameter regime where the bump solution is bistable with an all-off state and can be initiated with a transient excitatory stimulus. We show that the activity profile matches that of a corresponding population rate model. The bump in a spiking network can lose stability through partial synchronization to either a traveling wave or the all-off state. This can occur if the synaptic timescale is too fast through a dynamical effect or if a transient excitatory pulse is applied to the network. A bump can thus be activated and deactivated with excitatory inputs that may have physiological relevance.

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