Self-Wiring of Neural Networks

Preprint

1 October 1997

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cond-mat/9710352

Abstract

In order to form the intricate network of synaptic connections in the brain, the growth cones migrate through the embryonic environment to their targets using chemical communication. As a first step to study self-wiring, 2D model systems of neurons have been used. We present a simple model to reproduce the salient features of the 2D systems. The model incorporates random walkers representing the growth cones, which migrate in response to chemotaxis substances extracted by the soma and communicate with each other and with the soma by means of attractive chemotactic "feedback".

Keywords

SYNAPTIC CONNECTIONS
INTRICATE NETWORK
NEURAL NETWORKS
GROWTH CONES
COMMUNICATE
EXTRACTED
MIGRATE
NEURONS
SOMA

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Version 1, 1997-10-01, ArXiv
Published version: Physics Letters A, 237 (4-5), 307.

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