TY - JOUR T1 - Functional Cliques in Developmentally Correlated Neural Networks JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/064147 SP - 064147 AU - S. Luccioli AU - A. Barzilai AU - E. Ben-Jacob AU - P. Bonifazi AU - A. Torcini Y1 - 2016/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/07/18/064147.abstract N2 - We consider a sparse random network of excitatory leaky integrate-andfire neurons with short-term synaptic depression. Furthermore to mimic the dynamics of a brain circuit in its first stages of development we introduce for each neuron correlations among in-degree and out-degree as well as among excitability and the corresponding total degree, We analyze the influence of single neuron stimulation and deletion on the collective dynamics of the network. We show the existence of a small group of neurons capable of controlling and even silencing the bursting activity of the network. These neurons form a functional clique since only their activation in a precise order and within specific time windows is capable to ignite population bursts. ER -