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SOE: Fachverband Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

SOE 9: Poster - Glasses / Stat. Phys. Bio. / Networks (joint session DY/BP/CPP/SOE)

SOE 9.30: Poster

Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 09:30–12:30, P1

Dynamics of neural networks with transient synaptic plasticity rules — •Bulcsú Sándor and Claudius Gros — Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland

Working memory makes it possible to hold information temporarily for processing purposes; as such it has an important role in the execution of cognitive tasks. Its operation may possibly be mediated via short-term or transient synaptic plasticity effects. Thus the standard Tsodyks-Markram model for transient synaptic dynamics, built upon short-term synaptic plasticity effects, is a promising candidate to investigate the underlying dynamical behavior of these systems.

In our work we propose a simplified continuous time model for pre-synaptic plasticity rules, called full depletion model, which may allow a stricter control of the dynamics. The model is implemented for clique encoding recurrent networks with a Mexican-hat connection profile of synaptic weights. These systems show a wide variety of dynamical states as a function of the control parameters. We study the different types of behaviour emerging from transient synaptic plasticity rules from a dynamical system's point of view.