arXiv · cond-mat/0111546
Stochastic Resonance of Ensemble Neurons for Transient Spike Trains: A Wavelet Analysis
Abstract
By using the wavelet transformation (WT), we have analyzed the response of an ensemble of $N$ (=1, 10, 100 and 500) Hodgkin-Huxley (HH) neurons to {\it transient} $M$-pulse spike trains ($M=1-3$) with independent Gaussian noises. The cross-correlation between the input and output signals is expressed in terms of the WT expansion coefficients. The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is evaluated by using the {\it denoising} method within the WT, by which the noise contribution is extracted from output signals. Although the response of a single (N=1) neuron to sub-threshold transient signals with noises is quite unreliable, the transmission fidelity assessed by the cross-correlation and SNR is shown to be much improved by increasing the value of $N$: a population of neurons play an indispensable role in the stochastic resonance (SR) for transient spike inputs. It is also shown that in a large-scale ensemble, the transmission fidelity for supra-threshold transient spikes is not significantly degraded by a weak noise which is responsible to SR for sub-threshold inputs.
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Hideo Hasegawa. 2001-11-29. Stochastic Resonance of Ensemble Neurons for Transient Spike Trains: A Wavelet Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.66.021902
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