Dynamics of Sparsely Connected Networks of Excitatory and Inhibitory Spiking Neurons

The dynamics of networks of sparsely connected excitatory and inhibitory integrate-and-fire neurons are studied analytically, revealing a rich repertoire of states, including synchronous states in which neurons fire regularly; asynchronous states with stationary global activity and very irregular individual cell activity; andStates in which the global activity oscillates but individual cells fire irregularly.