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Cortical oscillations support sampling-based computations in spiking neural networks

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  • Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo
  • Michael G Müller
  • Andreas Baumbach
  • Luziwei Leng
  • Oliver J Breitwieser
  • Sacha J van Albada
  • Walter Senn
  • Karlheinz Meier
  • Robert Legenstein
  • Mihai A Petrovici
Abstract
Being permanently confronted with an uncertain world, brains have faced evolutionary pressure to represent this uncertainty in order to respond appropriately. Often, this requires visiting multiple interpretations of the available information or multiple solutions to an encountered problem. This gives rise to the so-called mixing problem: since all of these “valid” states represent powerful attractors, but between themselves can be very dissimilar, switching between such states can be difficult. We propose that cortical oscillations can be effectively used to overcome this challenge. By acting as an effective temperature, background spiking activity modulates exploration. Rhythmic changes induced by cortical oscillations can then be interpreted as a form of simulated tempering. We provide a rigorous mathematical discussion of this link and study some of its phenomenological implications in computer simulations. This identifies a new computational role of cortical oscillations and connects them to various phenomena in the brain, such as sampling-based probabilistic inference, memory replay, multisensory cue combination, and place cell flickering.Author summary: Activity oscillations are a ubiquitous and well-studied phenomenon throughout the cortex. At the same time, mounting evidence suggests that brain networks perform sampling-based probabilistic inference through their dynamics. In this work, we present a theoretical and a computational analysis that establish a rigorous link between these two phenomena: background oscillations enhance sampling-based computations by helping networks of spiking neurons to quickly reach different high-probability network states, i.e., computational results.

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  • Agnes Korcsak-Gorzo & Michael G Müller & Andreas Baumbach & Luziwei Leng & Oliver J Breitwieser & Sacha J van Albada & Walter Senn & Karlheinz Meier & Robert Legenstein & Mihai A Petrovici, 2022. "Cortical oscillations support sampling-based computations in spiking neural networks," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(3), pages 1-41, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pcbi00:1009753
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009753
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