Spike timing-dependent plasticity as the origin of the formation of clustered synaptic efficacy engrams

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Iannella, Nicolangelo Libero ^a,b,c   Launey, Thomas ^a   Tanaka, Shigeru ^d  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^c OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dendrite; Dendritic efficacy mosaic; Mutual information index; Spatial patterning; STDP

Indexed keywords

CORRELATED ACTIVITY; DENDRITIC EFFICACY MOSAIC; DETAILED MODELS; FEED-FORWARD NETWORK; GLOBAL ORGANIZATION; INPUT STREAMS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; NEURON MODEL; NEURONAL POPULATIONS; PYRAMIDAL CELL; SENSORY MODALITY; SPATIAL PATTERNING; SPIKE-TIMING-DEPENDENT PLASTICITY; STDP; SYNAPTIC INPUT; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY;

DENDRITES (METALLOGRAPHY); PLASTICITY; MEDICAL COMPUTING; NEUROLOGY;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENDRITE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SPIKE TIMING DEPENDENT PLASTICITY; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84855971761     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2010.00021     Document Type: Article

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