Degree of synchronization modulated by inhibitory neurons in clustered excitatory-inhibitory recurrent networks

Author： Li Huiyan Sun Xiaojuan Xiao Jinghua

E-ISSN： 1286-4854|121|1|10003-10003

ISSN： 0295-5075

Source： EPL (EUROPHYSICS LETTERS), Vol.121, Iss.1, 2018-04, pp. : 10003-10003

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Abstract

An excitatory-inhibitory recurrent neuronal network is established to numerically study the effect of inhibitory neurons on the synchronization degree of neuronal systems. The obtained results show that, with the number of inhibitory neurons and the coupling strength from an inhibitory neuron to an excitatory neuron increasing, inhibitory neurons can not only reduce the synchronization degree when the synchronization degree of the excitatory population is initially higher, but also enhance it when it is initially lower. Meanwhile, inhibitory neurons could also help the neuronal networks to maintain moderate synchronized states. In this paper, we call this effect as modulation effect of inhibitory neurons. With the obtained results, it is further revealed that the ratio of excitatory neurons to inhibitory neurons being nearly 4 : 1 is an economic and affordable choice for inhibitory neurons to realize this modulation effect.