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How Neurons Do Integrals

How Neurons Do Integrals. Mark Goldman. Outline. What is the neural basis of short-term memory? A model system: the Oculomotor Neural Integrator Neural mechanisms of integration: Linear network theory [4. Next lecture: Model critique – robustness in integrators and other neural systems].

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How Neurons Do Integrals

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  1. How Neurons Do Integrals Mark Goldman

  2. Outline • What is the neural basis of short-term memory? • A model system: the Oculomotor Neural Integrator • Neural mechanisms of integration: Linear network theory • [4. Next lecture: Model critique – robustness in integrators and other neural systems]

  3. input ∫input = running total 12 10 8 3 Add up the following numbers: =10 3 +5 +4 -2 This task involves: 1. Addition 2. Memory

  4. Record voltage in prefrontal cortex Voltage Voltage “spike” Firing rate (spikes/sec) time time Sample Memory period (delay) Match Persistent neural activity is the neural correlate of short-term memory

  5. Characteristics of Persistent Neural Activity • Sustained elevated (or reduced) firing rates lasting up to ~10’s of seconds, long outlasting the stimulus • Rapid onset, offset • Mean firing rate an analog variable – a neuron can sustain any of many different levels of activity • Stable pattern of activity among many neurons

  6. Model system:eye fixation during spontaneous horizontal eye movements Carassius auratus (goldfish)

  7. time Integrator neurons The Oculomotor Neural Integrator E Lateral (+) Medial Lateral Eye position E (degrees) Medial (-) Motor neurons (position signal) readout (+) direction Eye movement “burst” neurons (velocity signal) (-) direction Other side neurons control opposite half of oculomotor range

  8. persistent neural activity (memory of eye position) On/off burst input + + + Neural Recording from the Oculomotor Integrator

  9. Integrator Neurons: Firing Rate is Proportional to Eye Position

  10. Many-neuron Patterns of Activity Represent Eye Position saccade Activity of 2 neurons eye position represented by location along a low dimensional manifold (“line attractor”) (H.S. Seung, D. Lee)

  11. General Principle? Neural integrators operate by using their input to shift internally-generated patterns of activity along a coordinate (coding) axis. Persistent activity patterns are the integrator “memory” of previous inputs Activity Pattern= point on a line

  12. Mechanisms and Models of Persistent Neural Activity

  13. Line Attractor Picture of the Neural Integrator Geometrical picture of eigenvectors: Axes = firing rates of 2 neurons r2 r1 Decay along direction of decaying eigenvectors No decay or growth along direction of eigenvector with eigenvalue = 1 “Line Attractor” or “Line of Fixed Points”

  14. Effect of Bilateral Network Lesion Bilateral Lidocaine: Remove Positive Feedback Control

  15. Unstable Integrator Human with unstable integrator: E

  16. Weakness: Robustness to Perturbations Imprecision in accuracy of feedback connections severely compromises performance (memory drifts: leaky or unstable) 10% decrease in synaptic feedback

  17. Image slip = Eye slip Need to turn up feedback Learning to Integrate How accomplish fine tuning of synaptic weights? IDEA: Synaptic weights w learned from “image slip” (Arnold & Robinson, 1992) E.g. leaky integrator: w

  18. Experiment: Give Feedback as if Eye is Leaky or Unstable Compute image slip - that would result if eye were leaky/unstable = E E(t) Magnetic coil measures eye position

  19. Integrator Learns to Compensate for Leak/Instability! Control (in dark): Give feedback as if unstable Leaky: Give feedback as if leaky Unstable:

  20. Summary Persistent neural activity: activity which outlasts a transient stimulus Neural integrator: outputs the mathematical integral of its inputs -in the absence of input, maintains persistent neural activity Oculomotor neural integrator: -converts eye-velocity encoding inputs to eye position outputs -Mechanism: -Anatomy and physiology suggest network contribution -Issue of Robustness: Simple models are less robust to perturbations than the real system -Plasticity may keep the system tuned on slow time scales -On faster time scales, intrinsic cellular processes may provide a “friction-like” slowing of network decay But:

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