Model overview¶

Vogels et al 2011 provides an extension of the model described in Vogels and Abbott 2005 mainly in order to evaluate the role of inhibitory synapse plasticity in recovering an asynchronous network state after a manifestation of some memory pattern (i.e., highly correlated activity of some neuron group).

A brief video illustrating model features can be found here.

Downloading and running a simulation¶

To get local clone of this project Install Git, go to the directory in which the project will be cloned and type:

> git clone https://github.com/OpenSourceBrain/VogelsEtAl2011.git

In order to install PyNN see http://neuralensemble.org/trac/PyNN/wiki/Installation. Make sure to use the latest v0.8 version from GitHub, which includes the required Vogels2011Rule synapse. Note: NEURON is the only supported simulator for this model at the moment.

Go to the PyNN subdirectory:

> cd VogelsEtAl2011/PyNN

To run a simulation type:

> python vogelsEtAl2011.py neuron

Version of the project¶

A Matlab code using the original model implementation can be found here.

The project described here is still under development and NEURON is the only supported simulator for this model at the moment.