Near Scale-Free Dynamics in Neural Population Activity of Waking/Sleeping Rats Revealed by Multiscale Analysis

Leonid A Safonov, Yoshikazu Isomura, Siu Kang, Zbigniew R Struzik, Tomoki Fukai and Hideyuki Câteau

PLOS ONE, 2010, vol. 5, issue 9, 1-11

Abstract: A neuron embedded in an intact brain, unlike an isolated neuron, participates in network activity at various spatial resolutions. Such multiple scale spatial dynamics is potentially reflected in multiple time scales of temporal dynamics. We identify such multiple dynamical time scales of the inter-spike interval (ISI) fluctuations of neurons of waking/sleeping rats by means of multiscale analysis. The time scale of large non-Gaussianity in the ISI fluctuations, measured with the Castaing method, ranges up to several minutes, markedly escaping the low-pass filtering characteristics of neurons. A comparison between neural activity during waking and sleeping reveals that non-Gaussianity is stronger during waking than sleeping throughout the entire range of scales observed. We find a remarkable property of near scale independence of the magnitude correlations as the primary cause of persistent non-Gaussianity. Such scale-invariance of correlations is characteristic of multiplicative cascade processes and raises the possibility of the existence of a scale independent memory preserving mechanism.

Date: 2010
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