Topic: simulated retinal waves

Complex spatio-temporal neural population dynamics such as traveling waves are known to exist across multiple brain regions (Lubenov & Siapas, 2009; Muller et al., 2014), and have been hypothesized to play diverse roles from information transfer (Sato et al., 2012) to long-term memory consolidation (Muller et al., 2016). To-date, however, the empirical validation of these computational hypotheses has been hindered by the lack of a flexible and efficiently trainable model of such behavior. In this work, we introduce the Locally Coupled Oscillatory Recurrent Neural Network (LocoRNN), and sho