POSTER PRESENTATION Open Access Extreme sensitivity of reservoir computing to small network disruptions

Recent computational models based on reservoir com-puting (RC) are gaining attention as plausible theories of cortical information processing. In these models, the activity of a recurrently connected population of neurons is sent to one or many read-out units through a linear transformation. These models can operate in a chaotic regime which has been proposed as a possible mechan-ism underlying sustained irregular activity observed i