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How the information microscopically processed by individual neurons is integrated and used in organizing the behavior of an animal is a central question in neuroscience. The coherence of neuronal dynamics over different scales has been suggested as a clue to the mechanisms underlying this integration. Balanced excitation and inhibition may amplify microscopic fluctuations to a macroscopic level, thus providing a mechanism for generating coherent multiscale dynamics. Previous theories of brain dynamics, however, were restricted to cases in which inhibition dominated excitation and suppressed fluctuations in the macroscopic population activity. In the present study, we investigate the dynamics of neuronal networks at a critical point between excitation-dominant and inhibition-dominant states. In these networks, the microscopic fluctuations are amplified by the strong excitation and inhibition to drive the macroscopic dynamics, while the macroscopic dynamics determine the statistics of the microscopic fluctuations. Developing a novel type of mean-field theory applicable to this class of interscale interactions, we show that the amplification mechanism generates spontaneous, irregular

Author

Hayakawa, Takashi; Fukai, Tomoki

Published

2017

Language

EN