Dynamics of a network of sparsely connected inhibitory current-based integrate-and-fire neurons. Individual neurons fire irregularly at low rate but the network is in an oscillatory global activity regime where neurons are weakly synchronized.
Model Type: Realistic Network
Model Concept(s): Activity Patterns; Temporal Pattern Generation; Oscillations
Simulation Environment: Brian (web link to method); Python (web link to model)
References:
Brunel N, Hakim V. (1999). Fast global oscillations in networks of integrate-and-fire neurons with low firing rates. Neural computation. 11 [PubMed]