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Firing Frequency of Leaky Intergrate-and-fire Neurons with Synaptic Current Dynamics

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We consider a model of an integrate-and-fire neuron with synaptic current dynamics, in which the synaptic time constant τ′ is much smaller than the membrane time constant τ. We calculate analytically the firing frequency of such a neuron for inputs described by a random Gaussian process. We find that the first order correction to the frequency due to τ′ is proportional to the square root of the ratio between these time constants √τ′/τ. This implies that the correction is important even when the synaptic time constant is small compared with that of the potential. The frequency of a neuron with τ′>0 can be reduced to that of the basic IF neuron (corresponding to τ′=1) using an “effective” threshold which has a linear dependence on √τ′/τ. Numerical simulations show a very good agreement with the analytical result, and permit an extrapolation of the “effective” threshold to higher orders in √τ′/τ. The obtained frequency agrees with simulation data for a wide range of parameters.

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