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Exact differential equation population dynamics for Integrate-and-Fire neurons

 Julian Eggert and Berthold Bäuml
  
 

Abstract:

Mesoscopical, mathematical descriptions of dynamics of populations of spiking neurons are getting increasingly important for the understanding of large-scale processes in the brain using simulations. In our previous work, integral equation formulations for population dynamics have been derived for a special type of spiking neurons. For Integrate-and-Fire type neurons, these formulations were only approximately correct. Here, we derive a mathematically compact, exact population dynamics formulation for Integrate-and-Fire type neurons. It can be shown quantitatively in simulations that the numerical correspondence with microscopically modeled neuronal populations is excellent.

 
 


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