Sparseness constrains the prolongation of memory lifetime via synaptic metaplasticity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-77

  Leibold, Christian ^a,b,c,d   Kempter, Richard ^a,b,c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Associative memory; Cascade model of synaptic plasticity; Cell assembly; Memory capacity; Population code; Recurrent network

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL POPULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONGEVITY; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE;

CELL COUNT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 36849041065     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhm037     Document Type: Article

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