A simple model of spike processing

Authors:
Aurel A. Lazar
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
Venue:
Neurocomputing
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We describe a simple model of spike processing build with a number of neural hardware primitives including integrate-and-fire neurons, dendritic trees, integrators, inhibition logic and one-to-many axonal/dendritic tree connectivity. Functionally, our model consists of neuro-modulators, communication channels, neuro-demodulators and filters. Integrate-and-fire neurons play the role of neuro-modulators. They represent dendritic currents in the spike domain through a process of reversible computation. Neuro-demodulation and irreversible computation takes place in dendritic trees as time domain linear and/or non-linear operations. Assuming that the stimulus at the input of an integrate-and-fire sensory neuron is bandlimited, we demonstrate how to construct a linear operator that maps an arbitrary stimulus into a desired neuronal signal.