scholarly journals Long-range coordination patterns in cortex change with behavioral context

Author(s):  
David Dahmen ◽  
Moritz Layer ◽  
Lukas Deutz ◽  
Paulina Anna Dąbrowska ◽  
Nicole Voges ◽  
...  

Cortical connectivity mostly stems from local axonal arborizations, suggesting coordination is strongest between nearby neurons in the range of a few hundred micrometers. Yet multi-electrode recordings of resting-state activity in macaque motor cortex show strong positive and negative spike-count covariances between neurons that are millimeters apart. Here we show that such covariance patterns naturally arise in balanced network models operating close to an instability where neurons interact via indirect connections, giving rise to long-range correlations despite short-range connections. A quantitative theory explains the observed shallow exponential decay of the width of the covariance distribution at long distances. Long-range cooperation via this mechanism is not imprinted in specific connectivity structures but rather results dynamically from the network state. As a consequence, neuronal coordination patterns are not static but can change in a state-dependent manner, which we demonstrate by comparing different behavioral epochs of a reach-to-grasp experiment.

eLife ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Dahmen ◽  
Moritz Layer ◽  
Lukas Deutz ◽  
Paulina Anna Dąbrowska ◽  
Nicole Voges ◽  
...  

Modern electrophysiological recordings simultaneously capture single-unit spiking activities of hundreds of neurons spread across large cortical distances. Yet, this parallel activity is often confined to relatively low-dimensional manifolds. This implies strong coordination also among neurons that are most likely not even connected. Here, we combine in vivo recordings with network models and theory to characterize the nature of mesoscopic coordination patterns in macaque motor cortex and to expose their origin: We find that heterogeneity in local connectivity supports network states with complex long-range cooperation between neurons that arises from multi-synaptic, short-range connections. Our theory explains the experimentally observed spatial organization of covariances in resting state recordings as well as the behaviorally related modulation of covariance patterns during a reach-to-grasp task. The ubiquity of heterogeneity in local cortical circuits suggests that the brain uses the described mechanism to flexibly adapt neuronal coordination to momentary demands.


2021 ◽  
Vol 813 ◽  
pp. 136036
Author(s):  
A.M. Sirunyan ◽  
A. Tumasyan ◽  
W. Adam ◽  
F. Ambrogi ◽  
T. Bergauer ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Debankur Das ◽  
Pappu Acharya ◽  
Kabir Ramola

1999 ◽  
Vol 07 (02) ◽  
pp. 113-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. M. DE LA FUENTE ◽  
L. MARTINEZ ◽  
J. M. AGUIRREGABIRIA ◽  
J. VEGUILLAS ◽  
M. IRIARTE

In biochemical dynamical systems during each transition between periodical behaviors, all metabolic intermediaries of the system oscillate with the same frequency but with different phase-shifts. We have studied the behavior of phase-shift records obtained from random transitions between periodic solutions of a biochemical dynamical system. The phase-shift data were analyzed by means of Hurst's rescaled range method (introduced by Mandelbrot and Wallis). The results show the existence of persistent behavior: each value of the phase-shift depends not only on the recent transitions, but also on previous ones. In this paper, the different kind of periodic solutions were determined by different small values of the control parameter. It was assessed the significance of this results through extensive Monte Carlo simulations as well as quantifying the long-range correlations. We have also applied this type of analysis on cardiac rhythms, showing a clear persistent behavior. The relationship of the results with the cellular persistence phenomena conditioned by the past, widely evidenced in experimental observations, is discussed.


JETP Letters ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 89 (11) ◽  
pp. 547-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. E. Gorodnichev ◽  
A. I. Kuzovlev ◽  
D. B. Rogozkin

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