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Enhanced responsiveness in asynchronous irregular neuronal networks.Zahara Girones and Alain Destexhe.bioRxiv preprint: arxiv.org/abs/1611.09089 Copy of the full paper (PDF)AbstractNetworks of excitatory and inhibitory neurons display asynchronous irregular (AI) states, where the activities of the two populations are balanced. At the single cell level, it was shown that neurons subject to balanced and noisy synaptic inputs can display enhanced responsiveness. We show here that this enhanced responsiveness is also present at the network level, but only when single neurons are in a conductance state and fluctuation regime consistent with experimental measurements. In such states, the entire population of neurons is globally influenced by the external input. We suggest that this network-level enhanced responsiveness constitute low-level form of sensory awareness. |