Emergent Network Topology within the Respiratory Rhythm-Generating Kernel Evolved In Silico
Fig 10
Evolution of small-world (SW) network.
(A,B & C) Typical neuronal activity of a SW network, initially and after evolving it using MM4. Objective of evolution is to minimize (Cost1+Cost2) as defined by Eqs (1) and (2), respectively. (D) Evolution of cumulative curves (CC) depicting participation level of individual neurons to each population burst. CCobjective: CC corresponding to the desired case when every neuron in the network bursts with every population burst. CCMM4 is CC corresponding to network activity depicted in (A)‘Evolved SW using MM4’. CC0, CC1, CC2 and CC3 are representative intermediate CC obtained during the evolution process. CCMM3 is CC corresponding to evolved excitatory network by method described in section 2.5 (it is the same CCMM3 curve as is depicted in S8 Fig).