iaf_chs_2007 – Spike-response model used in Carandini et al. 2007

Description

The membrane potential is the sum of stereotyped events: the postsynaptic potentials (V_syn), waveforms that include a spike and the subsequent after-hyperpolarization (V_spike) and Gaussian-distributed white noise.

The postsynaptic potential is described by alpha function where U_epsp is the maximal amplitude of the EPSP and tau_epsp is the time to peak of the EPSP.

The spike waveform is described as a delta peak followed by a membrane potential reset and exponential decay. U_reset is the magnitude of the reset/after-hyperpolarization and tau_reset is the time constant of recovery from this hyperpolarization.

The linear subthreshold dynamics is integrated by the Exact Integration scheme [1]. The neuron dynamics is solved on the time grid given by the computation step size. Incoming as well as emitted spikes are forced to that grid.

Note

The way the noise term was implemented in the original model makes it unsuitable for simulation in NEST. The workaround was to prepare the noise signal externally prior to simulation. The noise signal, if present, has to be at least as long as the simulation.

See also [2].

Parameters

The following parameters can be set in the status dictionary.

tau_epsp

ms

Membrane time constant

tau_reset

ms

Refractory time constant

U_epsp

real

Maximum amplitude of the EPSP, normalized

U_reset

real

Reset value of the membrane potential, normalized

U_noise

real

Noise scale, normalized

noise

list of real

Noise signal

References

Sends

SpikeEvent

Receives

SpikeEvent, DataLoggingRequest

Examples using this model

None