title: On the dimensionality of cortical graphs.
abstract: We propose to use a random-graph model of cortex as a tabula-rasa state, to be contrasted with various types of regular connectivity patterns. Key in our analysis is the notion of graph-theoretic dimensionality, closely linked to that of graph diameter. Our discussion focuses on patterns of synfire type, and on the synfire-superposition model proposed in previous papers.
authors.affiliation: Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bienenstock
mesh_terms: D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D003491:Cybernetics; D008433:Mathematics; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D013269:Stochastic Processes; D009435:Synaptic Transmission / Q000502:physiology