Modulating the precision of recurrent bursts in cultured neural networks |
| |
Authors: | Choi Joon Ho Kim June Hoan Heo Ryoun Lee Kyoung J |
| |
Affiliation: | Center for Cell Dynamics and Department of Physics, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Korea. |
| |
Abstract: | Synchronized bursts are a very common feature in biological neural networks, and they play an important role in various brain functions and neurological diseases. This Letter investigates "recurrent synchronized bursts" induced by a single pulse stimulation in cultured networks of rat cortical neurons. We look at how the precision in their arrival times can be modified by a noble time-delayed stimulation protocol, which we term as "Δt training." The emergence of recurrent bursts and the change of the precision in their arrival times can be explained by the stochastic resonance of a damped, subthreshold, neural oscillation. |
| |
Keywords: | |
本文献已被 PubMed 等数据库收录! |
|