MesoNet: connectivity and self-organizing-map experiment

connectivity experiments + SOM tangent. small-world / scale-free / recurrence, and how would a continuous SOM update turn into spike events?

january 4 notebook content omitted from the first short collection: initial Brian2 neuron/synapse tests, feedforward and recurrent connectivity, separate excitatory/inhibitory synapses, and comparisons of small-world and scale-free structures. Unexpected oscillations were observed; the source describes preliminary better stability for the small-world case without a detailed result table.

separate learning idea: adapt self-organizing maps for hierarchical unsupervised representation. The open question is how a continuous SOM update could be expressed through discrete spike-based interactions.

XeAe input-to-excitatory weight matrix

• reference APIs saved in the source: Brian2 NeuronGroup, synapses, and equations.

• review questions: hold degree distribution, connection count, input and weights comparable before attributing behavior to topology. Log the oscillation measure and whether learning was enabled. This is a preliminary experiment note, not evidence of a generally superior connectivity family.