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Background Corticospinal excitability depends on the current brain state. The recent development of real-time EEG-triggered transcranial magnetic stimulation (EEG-TMS) allows studying this relationship in a causal fashion. Specifically, it has been shown that corticospinal excitability is higher during the scalp surface negative EEG peak compared to the positive peak of µ-oscillations in sensorimotor cortex, as indexed by larger motor evoked potentials (MEPs) for fixed stimulation intensity.
Objective We further characterize the effect of µ-rhythm phase on the MEP input-output (IO) curve by measuring the degree of excitability modulation across a range of stimulation intensities. We furthermore seek to optimize stimulation parameters to enable discrimination of functionally relevant EEG-defined brain states.
Methods A real-time EEG-TMS system was used to trigger MEPs during instantaneous brain-states corresponding to µ-rhythm surface positive and negative peaks with five different stimulation intensities covering an individually calibrated MEP IO curve in 15 healthy participants.
Results MEP amplitude is modulated by µ-phase across a wide range of stimulation intensities, with larger MEPs at the surface negative peak. The largest relative MEP-modulation was observed for weak intensities, the largest absolute MEP-modulation for intermediate intensities. These results indicate a leftward shift of the MEP IO curve during the µ-rhythm negative peak.
Conclusion The choice of stimulation intensity influences the observed degree of corticospinal excitability modulation by µ-phase. Lower stimulation intensities enable more efficient differentiation of EEG µ-phase-defined brain states.
We present a model for the autonomous learning of active binocular vision using a recently developed biome-chanical model of the human oculomotor system. The model is formulated in the Active Efficient Coding (AEC) framework, a recent generalization of classic efficient coding theories to active perception. The model simultaneously learns how to efficiently encode binocular images and how to generate accurate vergence eye movements that facilitate efficient encoding of the visual input. In order to resolve the redundancy problem arising from the actuation of the eyes through antagonistic muscle pairs, we consider the metabolic costs associated with eye movements. We show that the model successfully learns to trade off vergence accuracy against the associated metabolic costs, producing high fidelity vergence eye movements obeying Sherrington’s law of reciprocal innervation.
Changes in the efficacies of synapses are thought to be the neurobiological basis of learning and memory. The efficacy of a synapse depends on its current number of neurotransmitter receptors. Recent experiments have shown that these receptors are highly dynamic, moving back and forth between synapses on time scales of seconds and minutes. This suggests spontaneous fluctuations in synaptic efficacies and a competition of nearby synapses for available receptors. Here we propose a mathematical model of this competition of synapses for neurotransmitter receptors from a local dendritic pool. Using minimal assumptions, the model produces a fast multiplicative scaling behavior of synapses. Furthermore, the model explains a transient form of heterosynaptic plasticity and predicts that its amount is inversely related to the size of the local receptor pool. Overall, our model reveals logistical tradeoffs during the induction of synaptic plasticity due to the rapid exchange of neurotransmitter receptors between synapses.