Hebbian plasticity, a synaptic mechanism which detects and amplifies co-activity between
neurons, is considered a key ingredient underlying learning and memory in the brain …

Synaptic plasticity is considered to be the biological substrate of learning and memory. In
this document we review phenomenological models of short-term and long-term synaptic …

What happens in our brain when we make a decision? What triggers a neuron to send out a
signal? What is the neural code? This textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning …

Neurons in the brain communicate by short electrical pulses, the so-called action potentials
or spikes. How can we understand the process of spike generation? How can we …

Learning from instructions or demonstrations is a fundamental property of our brain
necessary to acquire new knowledge and develop novel skills or behavioral patterns. This …

Classical experiments on spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) use a protocol based on
pairs of presynaptic and postsynaptic spikes repeated at a given frequency to induce …

We explore a synaptic plasticity model that incorporates recent findings that potentiation and
depression can be induced by precisely timed pairs of synaptic events and postsynaptic …

Neurons carry out the many operations that extract meaningful information from sensory
receptor arrays at the organism's periphery and translate these into action, imagery and …

Several formulations of correlation-based Hebbian learning are reviewed. On the
presynaptic side, activity is described either by a firing rate or by presynaptic spike arrival …

We review a body of theoretical and experimental research on Hebbian and homeostatic
plasticity, starting from a puzzling observation: while homeostasis of synapses found in …