Perspectives of the high-dimensional dynamics of neural microcircuits from the point of view of low-dimensional readouts

We investigate generic models for cortical microcircuits, i.e. recurrent circuits of integrate-and fire neurons with dynamic synapses. These complex dynamic systems subserve the amazing information processing capabilities of the cortex, but are at the present time very little understood. We analyze the transient dynamics of models for neural microcircuits from the point of view of one or two readout neurons that collapse