Jinli Xie

Work place: College of Information Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai, China

E-mail: xjl802@mail.dhu.edu.cn

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Research Interests: Neural Networks, Computer Networks, Network Architecture, Network Security

Biography

Jinli Xie, born in China in 1983, earned B.S. degree in automation in 2006 from College of Electronic Information and Control Engineering of Shandong Polytechnic University , Jinan, China. She is a PhD candidate in Control Theroy and Control Engineering, College of Information Science and Technology , Donghua Universty, Shanghai, China. Her research interests are neural network, neural dynamics and computational neuroscience.

Author Articles
Effect of Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity on Correlated firing in Feedback Networks

By Jinli Xie Zhijie Wang Haibo Shi

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2011.04.03, Pub. Date: 8 Jun. 2011

The firing activity of a neuronal population is correlated, which has been linked to information coding and exchanging. Short-term synaptic plasticity allows synapses to increase (facilitate) or decrease (depress) over a wide range of time scales. It is critical to understand the characteristics and mechanisms of the correlated firing and the role of short-term synaptic plasticity in regulating firing activity. The short-term synaptic depression and facilitation are examined at the synapses in the inhibitory feedback loop of feedback neural networks. Numerical simulations reveal that the modulation of the correlated firing by dynamics of depression and facilitation is due to their effects on the synaptic strength. By varying synaptic time constants, the enhancement in either firing rate or intensity of oscillations can improve the correlated firing. Our study thus provides a general computational analysis of the sequential interaction of short-term plasticity with neuronal firing.

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