Use play-Vector on NetCon weight

[ChrisR]

Hi,
it seems that this is trickier than I thought.

I want to modulate the weight of a NetCon object with a vector I am reading from a file.

So I start with:

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finter=0
interspike.play(&finter, interspiket, 1)

wich is working, because I can see that variable finter is plotted correctly.

but when I create the Netcon object:

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 ncGABA = new NetCon(nil, exp2syn, 0.5, 0, finter*weight_const) 

it seems that finter always takes the value it has been initialized to, in this case 0, and never modulates the weight.

Might this be due to the fact that I define my synaptic events via:

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ncGABA.event(eventime)

Do I have to add something that always updates the weight?

Thanks for your help,
Chris

[ted]

when I create the Netcon object:

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 ncGABA = new NetCon(nil, exp2syn, 0.5, 0, finter*weight_const) 

it seems that finter always takes the value it has been initialized to, in this case 0, and never modulates the weight.

True. The entire statement is executed during model setup, not during simulation execution.
It wouldn't make sense to execute model setup statements repeatedly during simulation
execution.

You want to do this instead
wvec.play(&ncGABA.weight, tvec, 1)
where wvec and tvec are the vectors that hold the sequence of (weight, time) values.
This tells the runtime system that you want the values of wvec to update the values of
ncGABA.weight in the course of a simulation.