Does spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity couple or decouple neurons firing in synchrony?

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue AUGUST, 2012, Pages

  Knoblauch, Andreas ^a   Hauser, Florian ^b   Gewaltig, Marc Oliver ^c   Körner, Edgar ^a   Palm, Günther ^b  

^a HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hebbian cell assemblies; Learning; Memory; Spike synchronization; STDP; Synaptic connectivity; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CELL ASSEMBLY; LEARNING; SPIKE SYNCHRONIZATION; STDP; SYNAPTIC CONNECTIVITY; SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; PLASTICITY; SYNCHRONIZATION;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; BACK PROPAGATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN REGION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HABITUATION; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; LINEAR SYSTEM; LONG TERM DEPRESSION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84865959230     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00055     Document Type: Article

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