Cellular and circuit mechanisms of persistent neural activity

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Cellular and circuit mechanisms of persistent neural activity

The computer and the brain

Flip-flop: multistability & memory

Short-term vs. long-term memory

Delayed-match-to-sample task

Cortical areas of macaque

Dorsal and ventral streams

Visual stimuli

Delay activity in IT cortex

Memory of object locations

Dynamic transformation

Memory-related neural activity

How does a transient stimulus cause a lasting change in neural activity?

Hypothetical mechanisms

People

Control of eye position

Memory of eye position

Where the memory is stored

Localization criteria

Damaging the memory

Neural coding of eye position

Oculomotor persistent activity

Analog coding

Cellular models

Membrane bistability

Intracellular recording

Current injection

Synaptic facilitation

Cellular mechanisms

Network models

Persistent activity in an autapse

Intrinsic currents

Synaptic currents

PPT Slide

Reduced model

Linear feedback theory

Mistuned positive feedback

Correlations

Dual microelectrode recording

PPT Slide

Dual electrode recording

Conclusion

The computer and the brain

Discrete vs. continuous attractors

Energy function

Behavioral plasticity

Hebb’s theory

Line attractor dynamics

Author: Sebastian Seung