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Escape time in bistable neuronal populations driven by colored synaptic noise (2404.05391v1)
Published 8 Apr 2024 in q-bio.NC
Abstract: Local networks of neurons are nonlinear systems driven by synaptic currents elicited by its own spiking activity and the input received from other brain areas. Synaptic currents are well approximated by correlated Gaussian noise. Besides, the population dynamics of neuronal networks is often found to be multistable, allowing the noise source to induce state transitions. State changes in neuronal systems underlies the way information is encoded and transformed. The characterization of the escape time from metastable states is then a cornerstone to understand how information is processed in the brain. The effects of correlated input forcing bistable systems have been studied for over half a century, nonetheless most results are perturbative or valid only when a separation of time scales is present. Here, we present a novel and exact result holding when the correlation time of the noise source is identical to that of the neural population, hence solving in a very general setting the mean escape time problem.
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