Figure 1

Raster plot of network activity. (A) Typical raster plot, shown is 1 second of the activity of a balanced network with recurrent synaptic couplings of amplitude EPSP = 0.1 mV, in response to a stimulus of orientation θ = 90° at a medium contrast (s _B = 16 000 spikes/s). Spikes of excitatory and inhibitory neurons are plotted in red and blue, respectively. The plot on the right shows the average firing rate of neurons, computed from the spike count during 6 s of simulation. The histogram on the bottom depticts the time resolved firing rates of the excitatory (red) and the inhibitory (blue) populations, respectively, using a time window of 10 ms. The histogram on the bottom right shows the probability density function of time averaged firing rates of individual excitatory (red) and inhibitory (blue) neurons in the network, respectively. (B) Same spike trains as above, with neurons sorted according to their input preferred orientations (indicated on the y-axis). As above, the plot on the right indicates the firing rate of each neuron computed from the spikes emitted during the simulation.