A network of pyramidal neurons is sensitive to the timing of its excitatory inputs

The transmission of excitatory inputs by a network of coupled pyramidal cells is investigated by means of numerical simulations. The pyramidal cell models are coupled by excitatory synapses and each one receives an excitatory pulse at a random time extracted from a Gaussian distribution. Moreover, each cell model is injected with a noisy current. It was found that the excitatory coupling promotes the transmission of the synaptic inputs on a time scale of a few ms