LCN Seminar: What is the most realistic single-compartment neuron model?
Event details
| Date | 21.11.2013 |
| Hour | 13:45 |
| Speaker |
Romain BRETTE, Lab of Psychology and Perception, Hearing Group ENS, Paris |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
The integrate-and-fire model is often used in computational neuroscience because it is a simple
phenomenological model, despite general agreement that the single-compartment Hodgkin-
Huxley model is more realistic.
However, on closer examination, it appears that the latter model is also phenomenological,
because spikes are initiated in the axon initial segment, not in the soma. In this talk I will show
that, contrary to popular belief, the simpler model is in fact also the more realistic.
phenomenological model, despite general agreement that the single-compartment Hodgkin-
Huxley model is more realistic.
However, on closer examination, it appears that the latter model is also phenomenological,
because spikes are initiated in the axon initial segment, not in the soma. In this talk I will show
that, contrary to popular belief, the simpler model is in fact also the more realistic.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Wulfram GERSTNER
Contact
- Chantal Mellier