Title
Probing changes in neural interaction during adaptation.
Abstract
A procedure is developed to probe the changes in the functional interactions among neurons in primary motor cortex of the monkey brain during adaptation. A monkey is trained to learn a new skill, moving its arm to reach a target under the influence of external perturbations. The spike trains of multiple neurons in the primary motor cortex are recorded simultaneously. We utilize the methodology of directed transfer function, derived from a class of linear stochastic models, to quantify the causal interactions between the neurons. We find that the coupling between the motor neurons tends to increase during the adaptation but return to the original level after the adaptation. Furthermore, there is evidence that adaptation tends to affect the topology of the neural network, despite the approximate conservation of the average coupling strength in the network before and after the adaptation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1162/089976603322362392
Neural Computation
Keywords
DocType
Volume
neural network,external perturbation,average coupling strength,primary motor cortex,neural interaction,linear stochastic model,causal interaction,monkey brain,functional interaction,motor neuron,approximate conservation
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
0899-7667
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.80
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Liqiang Zhu191.76
Ying-Cheng Lai231535.67
Frank C. Hoppensteadt36021.43
Jiping He411017.46