Fronto-parietal visuospatial WM model with HH cells (Edin et al 2007)

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1) J Cogn Neurosci: 3 structural mechanisms that had been hypothesized to underlie vsWM development during childhood were evaluated by simulating the model and comparing results to fMRI. It was concluded that inter-regional synaptic connection strength cause vsWM development. 2) J Integr Neurosci: Given the importance of fronto-parietal connections, we tested whether connection asymmetry affected resistance to distraction. We drew the conclusion that stronger frontal connections are beneficial. By comparing model results to EEG, we concluded that the brain indeed has stronger frontal-to-parietal connections than vice versa.
References:
1 . Edin F, Macoveanu J, Olesen P, Tegnér J, Klingberg T (2007) Stronger synaptic connectivity as a mechanism behind development of working memory-related brain activity during childhood. J Cogn Neurosci 19:750-60 [PubMed]
2 . Edin F, Klingberg T, Stödberg T, Tegnér J (2007) Fronto-parietal connection asymmetry regulates working memory distractibility. J Integr Neurosci 6:567-96 [PubMed]
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Model Type: Realistic Network;
Brain Region(s)/Organism: Neocortex;
Cell Type(s): Neocortex U1 L2/6 pyramidal intratelencephalic GLU cell; Abstract Wang-Buzsaki neuron;
Channel(s):
Gap Junctions: Gap junctions;
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Simulation Environment: NEURON;
Model Concept(s): Working memory; Attractor Neural Network;
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function dirs = findSims(key, pos, start)

% This function goes through all directories to find simulations with
% parameters at index pos matching those in key. Uses function
% getTreeSpec.m, which must be in the same directory.
%
% key is a vector containing a pattern of numerical values
% pos is a vector of indices
% start is the directory where you want to start your search
%
% Author: Fredrik Edin, 2004
% Address: freedin@nada.kth.se

thisdir = pwd;
if nargin < 3
    start = '~/Neuron/Program/MySim';
end
if isempty( find( start == '~' ) )
    start = strcat( thisdir, '/', start );
end
homepw = '~/Neuron/Program/STANDARDFILER/'; % The directory
                                            % where this file exists

% Find all directories in which to search
cd( homepw )
tree = getTreeSpec( start );

% Find directories where pattern matches
dirs = [];
for i = 1:length( tree )
    cd( tree(i).name )
    if exist( 'Params' ) > 1
        load( 'Params' )
        stammer = 1;
        for j = 1:length( pos )
            if key( j ) ~= Params( pos( j ) )
                stammer = 0;
                break
            end
        end
        if stammer
            dirs = [ dirs ; tree(i) ];
        end
        clear Params
    end
end

% return to where you started
cd( thisdir )

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