Hello,

The use of "post-pre" notation when referring to synaptic connections is common practice in computational neuroscience.
It does often give rise to some confusion, but it is common, for example, to refer to a synaptic connection from neuron j to neuron i as ij (post<-pre).
This is the notation used in this example, where we refer to the connection from inhibitory to excitatory neurons (I->E) as EI (post-pre) and connections from excitatory to inhibitory neurons (E->I) as IE (post-pre).
It is just a matter of convention.

Best regards,
Renato Duarte

On Jan 19 2021, at 12:43 pm, Ing Jyh Tsang <ingjyh.tsang@uantwerpen.be> wrote:
HI,

I may be mistaken, but isn't the EI and IE index switched (https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/stable/auto_examples/plot_weight_matrices.html) ?

a_EI = nest.GetConnections(I_neurons, E_neurons)
c_EI = nest.GetStatus(a_EI, keys='weight')
a_IE = nest.GetConnections(E_neurons, I_neurons)
c_IE = nest.GetStatus(a_IE, keys='weight')

for idx, n in enumerate(a_EI):
W_EI[n[0] - min(I_neurons), n[1] - min(E_neurons)] += c_EI[idx]
for idx, n in enumerate(a_IE):
W_IE[n[0] - min(E_neurons), n[1] - min(I_neurons)] += c_IE[idx]


Thanks,
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