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Polychronization has been proposed as a possible way to investigate the notion of cell assemblies and to understand their role as memory supports for information coding. In a spiking neuron network, polychronous groups (PGs) are small subsets of neurons that can be activated in a chain reaction according to a specific time-locked pattern. PGs can be detected in a neural network with known connection delays and visualized on a spike raster plot. In this paper, we specify the definition of PGs, making a distinction between structural and dynamical polychronous groups. We propose two algortihms to scan for structural PGs supported by a given network topology, one based on the distribution of connection delays and the other taking into account the synaptic weight values. At last, we propose a third algorithm to scan for the PGs that are actually activated in the network dynamics during a given time window.
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Martinez, R., Paugam-Moisy, H. (2009). Algorithms for Structural and Dynamical Polychronous Groups Detection. In: Alippi, C., Polycarpou, M., Panayiotou, C., Ellinas, G. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2009. ICANN 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5769. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04277-5_8
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