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Dendrodendritic interactions between excitatory mitral cells and inhibitory granule cells in the olfactory bulb create a dense interaction network, reorganizing sensory representations of odors and, consequently, perception. Large-scale computational models are needed for revealing how the collective behavior of this network emerges from its global architecture. We propose an approach where we summarize anatomical information through dendritic geometry and density distributions which we use to calculate the connection probability between mitral and granule cells, while capturing activity patterns of each cell type in the neural dynamical systems theory of Izhikevich. In this way, we generate an efficient, anatomically and physiologically realistic large-scale model of the olfactory bulb network. Our model reproduces known connectivity between sister vs. non-sister mitral cells; measured patterns of lateral inhibition; and theta, beta, and gamma oscillations. The model in turn predicts testable relationships between network structure and several functional properties, including lateral inhibition, odor pattern decorrelation, and LFP oscillation frequency. We use the model to explore the influence of cortex on the olfactory bulb, demonstrating possible mechanisms by which cortical feedback to mitral cells or granule cells can influence bulbar activity, as well as how neurogenesis can improve bulbar decorrelation without requiring cell death. Our methodology provides a tractable tool for other researchers.
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Affiliation(s)
- David E. Chen Kersen
- Computational Neuroscience Initiative, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Computational Neuroscience Initiative, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Computational Neuroscience Initiative, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Tavoni G, Kersen DEC, Balasubramanian V. Cortical feedback and gating in odor discrimination and generalization. PLoS Comput Biol 2021; 17:e1009479. [PMID: 34634035 PMCID: PMC8530364 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2021] [Revised: 10/21/2021] [Accepted: 09/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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A central question in neuroscience is how context changes perception. In the olfactory system, for example, experiments show that task demands can drive divergence and convergence of cortical odor responses, likely underpinning olfactory discrimination and generalization. Here, we propose a simple statistical mechanism for this effect based on unstructured feedback from the central brain to the olfactory bulb, which represents the context associated with an odor, and sufficiently selective cortical gating of sensory inputs. Strikingly, the model predicts that both convergence and divergence of cortical odor patterns should increase when odors are initially more similar, an effect reported in recent experiments. The theory in turn predicts reversals of these trends following experimental manipulations and in neurological conditions that increase cortical excitability.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gaia Tavoni
- Computational Neuroscience Initiative, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Computational Neuroscience Initiative, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Computational Neuroscience Initiative, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Inferring hidden structure from noisy observations is a problem addressed by Bayesian statistical learning, which aims to identify optimal models of the process that generated the observations given assumptions that constrain the space of potential solutions. Animals and machines face similar "model-selection" problems to infer latent properties and predict future states of the world. Here we review recent attempts to explain how intelligent agents address these challenges and how their solutions relate to Bayesian principles. We focus on how constraints on available information and resources affect inference and propose a general framework that uses benefit(accuracy) and accuracy(cost) curves to assess optimality under these constraints.
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Affiliation(s)
- Gaia Tavoni
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
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- Robert C. Wilson
- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science Program, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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- Department of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Tavoni G, Ferrari U, Battaglia FP, Cocco S, Monasson R. Functional coupling networks inferred from prefrontal cortex activity show experience-related effective plasticity. Netw Neurosci 2017; 1:275-301. [PMID: 29855621 PMCID: PMC5874136 DOI: 10.1162/netn_a_00014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2016] [Accepted: 04/24/2017] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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Functional coupling networks are widely used to characterize collective patterns of activity in neural populations. Here, we ask whether functional couplings reflect the subtle changes, such as in physiological interactions, believed to take place during learning. We infer functional network models reproducing the spiking activity of simultaneously recorded neurons in prefrontal cortex (PFC) of rats, during the performance of a cross-modal rule shift task (task epoch), and during preceding and following sleep epochs. A large-scale study of the 96 recorded sessions allows us to detect, in about 20% of sessions, effective plasticity between the sleep epochs. These coupling modifications are correlated with the coupling values in the task epoch, and are supported by a small subset of the recorded neurons, which we identify by means of an automatized procedure. These potentiated groups increase their coativation frequency in the spiking data between the two sleep epochs, and, hence, participate to putative experience-related cell assemblies. Study of the reactivation dynamics of the potentiated groups suggests a possible connection with behavioral learning. Reactivation is largely driven by hippocampal ripple events when the rule is not yet learned, and may be much more autonomous, and presumably sustained by the potentiated PFC network, when learning is consolidated. Cell assemblies coding for memories are widely believed to emerge through synaptic modification resulting from learning, yet their identification from activity is very arduous. We propose a functional-connectivity-based approach to identify experience-related cell assemblies from multielectrode recordings in vivo, and apply it to the prefrontal cortex activity of rats recorded during a task epoch and the preceding and following sleep epochs. We infer functional couplings between the recorded cells in each epoch. Comparisons of the functional coupling networks across the epochs allow us to identify effective potentiation between the two sleep epochs. The neurons supporting these potentiated interactions strongly coactivate during the task and subsequent sleep epochs, but not in the preceding sleep, and, hence, presumably belong to an experience-related cell assembly. Study of the reactivation of this assembly in response to hippocampal ripple inputs suggests possible relations between the stage of behavorial learning and memory consolidation mechanisms.
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- Gaia Tavoni
- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research and CNRS - UMR 8550, Paris Sorbonne UPMC, Paris, France.,Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research and CNRS- UMR 8549, Paris Sorbonne UPMC, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research and CNRS - UMR 8550, Paris Sorbonne UPMC, Paris, France.,Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research and CNRS- UMR 8549, Paris Sorbonne UPMC, Paris, France
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research and CNRS - UMR 8550, Paris Sorbonne UPMC, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research and CNRS- UMR 8549, Paris Sorbonne UPMC, Paris, France
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Tavoni G, Cocco S, Monasson R. Neural assemblies revealed by inferred connectivity-based models of prefrontal cortex recordings. J Comput Neurosci 2016; 41:269-293. [PMID: 27469424 DOI: 10.1007/s10827-016-0617-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2015] [Revised: 07/07/2016] [Accepted: 07/12/2016] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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We present two graphical model-based approaches to analyse the distribution of neural activities in the prefrontal cortex of behaving rats. The first method aims at identifying cell assemblies, groups of synchronously activating neurons possibly representing the units of neural coding and memory. A graphical (Ising) model distribution of snapshots of the neural activities, with an effective connectivity matrix reproducing the correlation statistics, is inferred from multi-electrode recordings, and then simulated in the presence of a virtual external drive, favoring high activity (multi-neuron) configurations. As the drive increases groups of neurons may activate together, and reveal the existence of cell assemblies. The identified groups are then showed to strongly coactivate in the neural spiking data and to be highly specific of the inferred connectivity network, which offers a sparse representation of the correlation pattern across neural cells. The second method relies on the inference of a Generalized Linear Model, in which spiking events are integrated over time by neurons through an effective connectivity matrix. The functional connectivity matrices inferred with the two approaches are compared. Sampling of the inferred GLM distribution allows us to study the spatio-temporal patterns of activation of neurons within the identified cell assemblies, particularly their activation order: the prevalence of one order with respect to the others is weak and reflects the neuron average firing rates and the strength of the largest effective connections. Other properties of the identified cell assemblies (spatial distribution of coactivation events and firing rates of coactivating neurons) are discussed.
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- G Tavoni
- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research, Sorbonne Université UPMC, Paris, France. .,Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research, Sorbonne Université UPMC, Paris, France. .,Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA.
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- Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research, Sorbonne Université UPMC, Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL Research, Sorbonne Université UPMC, Paris, France
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Ferrari U, Tavoni G, Battaglia FP, Cocco S, Monasson R. Inferred Ising model unveils potentiation of pairwise neural interactions and replay of rule-learning related neural activity. BMC Neurosci 2013. [PMCID: PMC3704622 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-s1-p276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Tavoni G, Ferrari U, Battaglia FP, Cocco S, Monasson R. Inferred network from prefrontal cortex activity of rats unveils cell assemblies. BMC Neurosci 2013. [PMCID: PMC3704341 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-s1-o20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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