Statistical-mechanical measure of stochastic spiking coherence in a population of inhibitory subthreshold neurons

Authors:
Woochang Lim;Sang-Yoon Kim
Affiliations:
Department of Physics, Kangwon National University, Kangwon-Do, Korea 200-701;Department of Physics, Kangwon National University, Kangwon-Do, Korea 200-701
Venue:
Journal of Computational Neuroscience
Year:
2011

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Abstract

By varying the noise intensity, we study stochastic spiking coherence (i.e., collective coherence between noise-induced neural spikings) in an inhibitory population of subthreshold neurons (which cannot fire spontaneously without noise). This stochastic spiking coherence may be well visualized in the raster plot of neural spikes. For a coherent case, partially-occupied "stripes" (composed of spikes and indicating collective coherence) are formed in the raster plot. This partial occupation occurs due to "stochastic spike skipping" which is well shown in the multi-peaked interspike interval histogram. The main purpose of our work is to quantitatively measure the degree of stochastic spiking coherence seen in the raster plot. We introduce a new spike-based coherence measure M s by considering the occupation pattern and the pacing pattern of spikes in the stripes. In particular, the pacing degree between spikes is determined in a statistical-mechanical way by quantifying the average contribution of (microscopic) individual spikes to the (macroscopic) ensemble-averaged global potential. This "statistical-mechanical" measure M s is in contrast to the conventional measures such as the "thermodynamic" order parameter (which concerns the time-averaged fluctuations of the macroscopic global potential), the "microscopic" correlation-based measure (based on the cross-correlation between the microscopic individual potentials), and the measures of precise spike timing (based on the peri-stimulus time histogram). In terms of M s , we quantitatively characterize the stochastic spiking coherence, and find that M s reflects the degree of collective spiking coherence seen in the raster plot very well. Hence, the "statistical-mechanical" spike-based measure M s may be used usefully to quantify the degree of stochastic spiking coherence in a statistical-mechanical way.