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Modeling and Parallelization of Cerebellar Microcircuit for Combinatorial Operations

Publication Type : Conference Paper

Thematic Areas : Learning-Technologies, Medical Sciences, Biotech

Publisher : XXXIV Annual Meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN).

Source : XXXIV Annual Meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN) (2016)

Campus : Amritapuri

School : School of Biotechnology

Center : Amrita Mind Brain Center, Biotechnology, Computational Neuroscience and Neurophysiology

Department : biotechnology

Year : 2016

Abstract : Modeling and simulation techniques have been used extensively to study the complexities of brain circuits. Simulations of bio-realistic networks consisting of large number of neurons require massive computational power when they are designed to provide real-time responses in millisecond scale. A network model of cerebellar granular layer was developed and simulated here on Graphic Processing Units (GPU) which delivered a high compute capacity at low cost. We used a mathematical model namely, Adaptive Exponential leaky integrate-and-fire (AdEx) equations to model the different types of neurons in the cerebellum. The hypothesis relating spatiotemporal information processing in the input layer of the cerebellum and its relations to sparse activation of cell clusters was evaluated. The main goal of this paper was to understand the computational efficiency and scalability issues while implementing a large-scale microcircuit consisting of millions of neurons and synapses. The results suggest efficient scale-up based on pleasantly parallel modes of operations allows simulations of large-scale spiking network models for cerebellum-like network circuits.

Cite this Research Publication : Rajendran A., Dr. Bipin G. Nair, and Dr. Shyam Diwakar, “Modeling and Parallelization of Cerebellar Microcircuit for Combinatorial Operation”, in XXXIV Annual Meeting of Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN), National Brain Research Center, Manesar, India, Oct 19-21, 2016

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