General description

Simulating and analysing plastic recurrent networks as in: Sadeh, Clopath and Rotter. Emergence of Functional Specificity in Balanced Networks with Synaptic Plasticity. PLOS Computational Biology 2015.

List of files

(1) network_simulator.py

Simulates a network of integrate-and-fire neurons with plastic synapses using Exact Integration

(2) params.py

Default set of parameters in (Table 1 of) [1]

(3) network_run.py

Uses network_simulator.py and runs a simulation of a plastic recurrent network.

(4) plot_figures.py

Reads the results from network_run.py and plots Figures 1 and 3 in [1]

To simulate the network and plot the figure(s):

First run (3): simulates the network and saves the results;

then run (4): reads the results and plots Figures 1 (top below) and 3 (2 bottom below):