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. 2014 Jan 28;8:5. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2014.00005

Table 1.

Simulation parameters for LIF neural network model.

Parameter description (name) Parameter value
LIF neuron parameters
Membrane capacitance (Cmemb) 200 pF
Membrane resistance (Rmemb) 100 GΩ
Resting voltage (Erest) −70 mV
Threshold voltage (Vthr) −55 mV
Absolute refractory period (τrefrac) 2 ms
Synaptic delay (tdelay,syn) 1 ms
Synaptic waveform properties
Synaptic conductance waveform rise time (τrise) 2 ms
Synaptic conductance normalization term (gnorm) 0.000001
Excitatory synapse reversal potential (Eex) 0 mV
Plasticity (STDP) parameters
Potentiation amplitude fit constant (Ap) 0.001
Potentiation decay time constant (τp) 20 ms
Depression amplitude fit constant (Ad) 0.003
Depression decay time constant (τd) 20 ms
Maximum synaptic conductance (gmax) 6000 pS
Input parameters
Input firing rate (finput) 0.8 spikes/s
Number of inputs processes per neuron (ntrains) 200
Spike-triggered stimulation (STS) parameters
Correlation delay 20 ms
Correlation probability 100% (50,000 pS)
Simulation parameters
Simulation time step (Δtstep) 1 ms