A model of neural networks comprised of the fast-spiking class of interneurons regulating neural networks. Fast-spiking neurons regulate activity in neural networks in response to environmental input from thalamic afferents by providing strong, rapid inhibition to a plurality of neurons in advance of excitatory neurons responding to environmental input. Fast-spiking neurons regulate experience dependent plasticity in neural networks by shifting between distinct maturational states in response to experience.
MODEL OF FAST-SPIKING NEURONS REGULATING NEURAL NETWORKS