" ... Here we show that adding a separate population of inhibitory neurons to a spiking model of V1 provides conformance to Dale’s Law, proposes a computational role for at least one class of interneurons, and accounts for certain observed physiological properties in V1. ... "
Model Type: Realistic Network
Cell Type(s): Abstract integrate-and-fire leaky neuron
Model Concept(s): Pattern Recognition
Simulation Environment: MATLAB (web link to model)
References:
King PD, Zylberberg J, DeWeese MR. (2013). Inhibitory interneurons decorrelate excitatory cells to drive sparse code formation in a spiking model of V1. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 33 [PubMed]