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A microcircuit model of the frontal eye fields (Heinzle et al. 2007)

Accession: 110022

" ... we show that the canonical circuit (Douglas et al. 1989, Douglas and Martin 1991) can, with a few modifications, model the primate FEF. The spike-based network of integrate-and-fire neurons was tested in tasks that were used in electrophysiological experiments in behaving macaque monkeys. The dynamics of the model matched those of neurons observed in the FEF, and the behavioral results matched those observed in psychophysical experiments. The close relationship between the model and the cortical architecture allows a detailed comparison of the simulation results with physiological data and predicts details of the anatomical circuit of the FEF."
Reference: Heinzle J, Hepp K, Martin KA (2007) A microcircuit model of the frontal eye fields. J Neurosci 27:9341-53 [PubMed]

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Model Type:	Network;
Brain Region(s)/Organism:	Neocortex;
Cell Type(s):
Channel(s):
Gap Junctions:
Receptor(s):
Gene(s):
Transmitter(s):
Simulation Environment:	MATLAB;
Model Concept(s):	Spatio-temporal Activity Patterns; Action Selection/Decision Making;
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makeall_connections.m

makeall_input.m

makeall_populations.m

select_sparse_connect.m

update_input_saccade.m

update_population.m

This is the readme for the model associated with the paper

Heinzle J, Hepp K, Martin KA (2007) A microcircuit model of the
frontal eye fields. J Neurosci 27:9341-53

Usage:

To run in matlab unzip the Folder FEF_DEMO.zip
and set the matlab path to it.

Change settings to the simulation in SetupDemo.m and
run the simulation FEF_DEMO.m

A figure appears within a minute which is updated to show the state of
the simulation:



And then after 4 minutes 7 figures are displayed that show the result
of the run:



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The model is also available from the first author's web site: an excerpt from
the paper supplies a web link to the model:

"Neurons and synapses. The basic elements of the FEF model, IF neurons,
and synapses, were defined similarly to those of Salinas (2003). (In
our common effort for transparency and reproducibility of computer
simulations, our complete code is available at 
www.ini.uzh.ch/~jakob/code/FEF_DEMO.zip.)"

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