Spike-Phase Coupling As an Order Parameter in a Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Model

Abstract

While criticality is widely observed in neural networks, its underlying neural mechanism is not known well. We consider a network of $N$ excitatory leaky integrated and fire (LIF) neurons that reside on a regular lattice with periodic boundary conditions. The cooperation between neurons, $K$, plays the role of the control parameter that is expected to generate criticality when the critical cooperation strength, $K_c$, is adopted. We show that the coupling between spike timing and the phase of temporal fluctuations of a cooperative activity of the network, i.e. population-averaged voltage (PAV), resorts to identifying an order parameter. By increasing $K$, we find a continuous transition from irregular spiking to a phase-locked state at the critical point, $K_c$. Moreover, we deploy the finite-size scaling analysis to obtain the critical exponents of this transition. We also show that the neuronal avalanches created at this critical point, display a remarkable scaling behavior with the exponents in a fair agreement with the experimental values.

arXiv comment8 pages, 6 figures

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