Possible roles of electrical synapse in temporal information processing: A computational study
Temporal information processing in the range of tens to hundreds of milliseconds is critical in many forms of sensory and motor tasks. However, little has been known about the neural mechanisms of temporal information processing. In the present study, we explore the possible roles of electrical synapses in processing the duration information of external stimuli in the neural system by constructing neural networks. Our results suggest that neural networks with electrical synapses functioning together with chemical synapses can effectively work for the temporal-to-spatial transformation of neuronal activities, and the spatially distributed sequential neural activities can potentially represent temporal information.
Xu-Long Wang Xiao-Dong Jiang Pei-Ji Liang
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
国际会议
上海
英文
474-477
2008-05-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）