Fred Wolf

TL;DR: It is predicted that Hodgkin–Huxley-type dynamics of action potential initiation can be induced by artificially decreasing the effective density of sodium channels, and in vitro experiments confirm this prediction, supporting the hypothesis that cooperative sodium channel activation underlies the dynamics ofaction potential initiation in cortical neurons.

TL;DR: It is shown that models of cortical circuits near the onset of oscillatory synchrony selectively route input signals despite the short duration of gamma bursts and the irregularity of neuronal firing.

TL;DR: These results suggest that self-organization has canalized the evolution of the neuronal circuitry underlying orientation preference maps into a single common design, and show mathematically that orientation-selective long-range connectivity can mediate the required interactions.

TL;DR: In this article, a causal analysis of time-series of model neural activity is performed to identify structural connectivity motifs and how the information encoded in spiking patterns of a local neuronal population is propagated across a fixed structural connection motif, demonstrating that changes in the active effective connectivity regulate both the efficiency and the directionality of information transfer.

TL;DR: For general networks of pulse-coupled oscillators, including regular, random, and more complex networks, an exact stability analysis of synchronous states is developed, showing that for inhibitory interactions the synchronous state is stable, independent of the parameters and the network connectivity.