Connectionists: Call for papers: Correlated activity and coding

[Tatjana Tchumatchenko]

Dear colleagues,

I am a guest editor for Frontiers Research Topic entitled
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**Correlated neuronal activity and its relationship to coding, dynamics 
and network architecture*

see here for details:
http://www.frontiersin.org/Computational_Neuroscience/researchtopics/Correlated_neuronal_activity_a/1155

We think that the interplay between neuronal correlations, dynamics and 
architecture
is a very timely topic that many of you might be working on.

If you have work a project related to neuronal interactions and coding, 
please consider submitting a manuscript.

We are looking forward to your submissions!

Abstract:

Correlated and synchronous activity in populations of neurons has been 
observed in many brain regions and has been shown to play a crucial role 
in cortical coding, attention, and network dynamics. Accurately 
measuring and estimating spiking correlations and synchrony in vivo 
presents several methodological difficulties. For example, despite 
recent advances in multicellular recording techniques, the number of 
neurons from which spiking activity can be simultaneously recorded 
remains orders magnitude smaller than the size of local networks. In 
addition, there is a lack of consensus on the distribution of pairwise 
spike cross correlations obtained in extracellular multi-unit recordings 
in any brain region. These limitations highlight the need for 
theoretical and modeling approaches to understand how correlations 
emerge and to decipher the functional role of correlated and synchronous 
activity in the brain.

Contributions to this special topic should advance our understanding of 
how correlations and synchrony are shaped by neuronal dynamics and 
network structure. Contributions addressing the impact of coordinated 
activity on coding and network dynamics are also welcome.

Examples include
1. Sources of spiking synchrony and correlations in recurrent networks.
2. The impact of cellular and synaptic dynamics on the coordinated 
activity of neuronal populations.
3. The role of network structure and connectivity motifs in network 
dynamics.
4. Ensemble encoding strategies in interconnected neuronal populations.



Best regards,

Tatjana Tchumatchenko

-- 
Dr. Tatjana Tchumatchenko
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
Columbia University
1051 Riverside Dr, NYC 20032, USA

Independent Research group leader (starting 2013)
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Max-von-Laue-Str 3 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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