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SeminarPast EventNeuroscience

Modularity of attractors in inhibition-dominated TLNs

Carina Curto

The Pennsylvania State University

Schedule
Monday, April 19, 2021

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Monday, April 19, 2021

7:00 PM Europe/Berlin

Host: BCCN Munich lecture series

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Domain

Neuroscience

Host

BCCN Munich lecture series

Duration

70 minutes

Abstract

Threshold-linear networks (TLNs) display a wide variety of nonlinear dynamics including multistability, limit cycles, quasiperiodic attractors, and chaos. Over the past few years, we have developed a detailed mathematical theory relating stable and unstable fixed points of TLNs to graph-theoretic properties of the underlying network. In particular, we have discovered that a special type of unstable fixed points, corresponding to "core motifs," are predictive of dynamic attractors. Recently, we have used these ideas to classify dynamic attractors in a two-parameter family of inhibition-dominated TLNs spanning all 9608 directed graphs of size n=5. Remarkably, we find a striking modularity in the dynamic attractors, with identical or near-identical attractors arising in networks that are otherwise dynamically inequivalent. This suggests that, just as one can store multiple static patterns as stable fixed points in a Hopfield model, a variety of dynamic attractors can also be embedded in a TLN in a modular fashion.

Topics

chaoscore motifsdynamic attractorsfixed pointsgraph-theoretic propertiesinhibition-dominatedmodularitymultistabilitythreshold-linear networks

About the Speaker

Carina Curto

The Pennsylvania State University

Contact & Resources

Personal Website

www.personal.psu.edu/cpc16/

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