Uses networks of cellular automata to test hypotheses about network topologies that can produce limited, sustained activity. Inspired by empirically-based ideas about neocortical architecture, but conceived and implemented at a level of abstraction that is not closely linked to empirical observations.
Model Type: Realistic Network
Region(s) or Organism(s): Neocortex
Model Concept(s): Activity Patterns; Connectivity matrix
Simulation Environment: MATLAB (web link to model)
References:
Hilgetag CC, Kaiser M. (2010). Optimal hierarchical modular topologies for producing limited sustained activation of neural networks Front. Neuroinform.. 4(8)