Step 3. Connect the cells
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B. We need to specify the parameters of the synaptic connections.
Leave all delays = 1 ms.
For now set the synaptic weights to these values :
Source Target Weight
S0 M1.E0 0.015
M1 R2.E0 0.0005
R2 M1.I1 0.0
These weights were chosen to ensure that M1 and R2 will both fire spikes at a steady rate. Later we will change the weight of R2 -> M1.I1 to 0.01 to see what happens when R2 is allowed to inhibit M1.
Now save the Network Builder to a session file.
Then we’ll be almost ready to test our network.