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              - on twitter: wwtns@TheoreticalWide - on Youtube</font></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div style="text-align:center"><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">New on the VVTNS YouTube Channel </font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.wwtns.online/past-seminars-2025-2026" target="_blank">https://www.wwtns.online/past-seminars-2025-2026</a></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><div><p style="background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000"><b>Computing the effects of excitatory-inhibitory balance</b></font></span></p><p style="background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:20px;line-height:normal;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000"><b>on neuronal input-output properties</b></font></span></p></div><div><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;text-align:start"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(13,13,13);font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;text-align:start"><font size="4">lecture delivered on February 11,  2026  by</font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:Roboto,Noto,sans-serif;text-align:start"><font size="4" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div><p style="background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:helvetica-w01-roman,helvetica-w02-roman,helvetica-lt-w10-roman,sans-serif"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000">Alex Reyes</font></span></span></span></p><p style="background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:helvetica-w01-roman,helvetica-w02-roman,helvetica-lt-w10-roman,sans-serif"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000">New York University</font></span></span></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#000000"><b>Abstract: </b><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">In sensory systems, stimuli are represented through the diverse firing responses and receptive fields of neurons. These features emerge from the interaction between excitatory (E) and inhibitory (I) neuron populations within the network. Changes in sensory inputs alter this balance, leading to shifts in firing patterns and the input-output properties of individual neurons and the network. While these phenomena have been studied extensively with experiments and theory, the underlying principles for combining E and I inputs are still unclear. Here, the rules for probabilistically combining E and I inputs are derived that describe how neurons in a feedforward inhibitory circuit respond to stimuli. This simple model is broadly applicable, capturing a wide range of response features that would otherwise require multiple separate models and offers insights into the cellular and network mechanisms influencing the input-output properties of neurons, gain modulation, and </span></span><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">the emergence of diverse temporal firing patterns.</span></span></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="text-align:center"><p style="text-align:left;background:transparent;border:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.6em;font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;margin:0px"><i style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><b>About V<font color="#500050">VTNS</font><font color="#500050"> :</font></b><font color="#500050"> </font>Launched as the World Wide  Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar (WWTN</span><span style="font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify">S) in</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify"> N</span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify">ovember 2020 and renamed in homage to Carl van Vreeswijk in Memoriam (April 20, 2022), Speakers have the occasion to talk about theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, </span></i><i style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify">held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,</span></i><i style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify">  are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.</span></i></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="m_-2524500773553063239m_7045304362081612403m_4179726376297834025m_5509523003637554824m_-436179444694456296m_-7681628874649059375m_7750187461389672445m_9094229232797745075m_-1462542758380322657m_7936782669738885075m_2132234319318737290m_3082520148829658712m_6732243839182647882m_-287356451416637581m_9199497142594163290m_3123758975499956944m_-4285543598660325014m_3406622003034096663m_-4434917348957094547m_6996923250378584115m_4339855878333796038m_2618317786332564474m_-6182961172059790657m_-6761930163476888199m_-1789248717287360482m_-7753075062499186717mt-signature"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.6em"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><br></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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