The effect of an exogenous magnetic field on neural coding in deep spiking neural networks

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Guo, Lei^{a; b; *} | Zhang, Wei^{a; b} | Zhang, Jialei^{a; b}

Affiliations: [a] State Key Laboratory for Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, P.R. China | [b] Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Field and Electrical Apparatus Reliability of Hebei Province, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300130, P.R. China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract: A ten-layer feed forward network is constructed in the presence of an exogenous alternating magnetic field. Specifically, our results indicate that for rate coding, the firing rate is significantly increased in the presence of an exogenous alternating magnetic field and particularly with increasing enhancement of the alternating magnetic field amplitude. For temporal coding, the interspike intervals of the spiking sequence are decreased and the distribution of the interspike intervals of the spiking sequence tends to be uniform in the presence of alternating magnetic field.

Keywords: Spiking neural network, neural coding, reduced neuron model

DOI: 10.3233/JIN-170046

Journal: Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 157-168, 2018