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We suggest a mechanism based on spike time dependent plasticity (STDP) of synapses to store, retrieve and predict temporal sequences. The mechanism is demonstrated in a model system of simplified integrate-and-fire type neurons densely…

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The organization of neurons into functionally related assemblies is a fundamental feature of cortical networks, yet our understanding of how these assemblies maintain distinct identities while sharing members remains limited. Here we…

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Neuronal oscillations are closely related to the symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). In this study, we explore how random fluctuations (or "stochastic inputs") affect these oscillations in brain states, which reflect the collective…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-24 Thoa Thieu , Roderick Melnik

This paper suggests a learning-theoretic perspective on how synaptic plasticity benefits global brain functioning. We introduce a model, the selectron, that (i) arises as the fast time constant limit of leaky integrate-and-fire neurons…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2012-09-26 David Balduzzi , Michel Besserve

The quest for highly efficient cognitive computing has led to extensive research interest for the field of neuromorphic computing. Neuromorphic computing aims to mimic the behavior of biological neurons and synapses using solid-state…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Humberto Inzunza Velarde , Jheel Nagaria , Zihan Yin , Ajey Jacob , Akhilesh Jaiswal

The Bienenstock-Cooper-Munro (BCM) and Spike Timing-Dependent Plasticity (STDP) rules are two experimentally verified form of synaptic plasticity where the alteration of synaptic weight depends upon the rate and the timing of pre- and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi , Said Al-Sarawi , Nicolangelo Iannella , Derek Abbott

Synapse plays an important role of learning in a neural network; the learning rules which modify the synaptic strength based on the timing difference between the pre- and post-synaptic spike occurrence is termed as Spike Time Dependent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Roshan Gopalakrishnan , Arindam Basu

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon in the brain. Despite numerous studies, the specific parameter configurations of the synaptic network structure and learning rules needed to achieve robust and enduring synchronization in neurons…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-15 Marius E. Yamakou , Mathieu Desroches , Serafim Rodrigues

Triplet-based Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity (TSTDP) is a powerful synaptic plasticity rule that acts beyond conventional pair-based STDP (PSTDP). Here, the TSTDP is capable of reproducing the outcomes from a variety of biological…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-02 Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi , Said Al-Sarawi , Derek Abbott , Nicolangelo Iannella

Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity is form of learning that has been demonstrated in real cortical tissue, but attempts to use it for artificial systems have not produced good results. This paper seeks to remedy this with two significant…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Simon Davidson , Stephen B. Furber , Oliver Rhodes

The emergence of nano-scale memristive devices encouraged many different research areas to exploit their use in multiple applications. One of the proposed applications was to implement synaptic connections in bio-inspired neuromorphic…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-09-14 C. Mohan , L. A. Camuñas-Mesa , J. M. de la Rosa , T. Serrano-Gotarredona , B. Linares-Barranco

Two elements of neural information processing have primarily been proposed: firing rate and spike timing of neurons. In the case of synaptic plasticity, although spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) depending on presynaptic and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-14 Katsuhiko Hata , Osamu Araki , Osamu Yokoi , Tatsumi Kusakabe , Yoshio Yamamoto , Susumu Ito , Tetsuro Nikuni

Spiking neural networks (SNN) are considered as a perspective basis for performing all kinds of learning tasks - unsupervised, supervised and reinforcement learning. Learning in SNN is implemented through synaptic plasticity - the rules…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Mikhail Kiselev

Understanding of short-term synaptic depression (STSD) and other forms of synaptic plasticity is a topical problem in neuroscience. Here we study the role of STSD in the formation of complex patterns of brain rhythms. We use a cortical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-12 K. -E. Lee , A. V. Goltsev , M. A. Lopes , J. F. F. Mendes

Biological neurons have adaptive nature and perform complex computations involving the filtering of redundant information. However, most common neural cell models, including biologically plausible, such as Hodgkin-Huxley or Izhikevich, do…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-22 Oleg Nikitin , Olga Lukyanova , Alex Kunin

While surrogate backpropagation proves useful for training deep spiking neural networks (SNNs), incorporating biologically inspired local signals on a large scale remains challenging. This difficulty stems primarily from the high memory…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yuchen Tian , Samuel Tensingh , Jason Eshraghian , Nhan Duy Truong , Omid Kavehei

We consider the Watts-Strogatz small-world network (SWN) consisting of inhibitory fast spiking Izhikevich interneurons. This inhibitory neuronal population has adaptive dynamic synaptic strengths governed by the inhibitory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-15 Sang-Yoon Kim , Woochang Lim

Analysing biological spiking neural network models with synaptic plasticity has proven to be challenging both theoretically and numerically. In a network with N all-to-all connected neurons, the number of synaptic connections is on the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Pascal Helson , Etienne Tanré , Romain Veltz

We introduce Spike Agreement Dependent Plasticity (SADP), a biologically inspired synaptic learning rule for Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) that relies on the agreement between pre- and post-synaptic spike trains rather than precise…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Saptarshi Bej , Muhammed Sahad E , Gouri Lakshmi , Harshit Kumar , Pritam Kar , Bikas C Das

This study proposes voltage-dependent-synaptic plasticity (VDSP), a novel brain-inspired unsupervised local learning rule for the online implementation of Hebb's plasticity mechanism on neuromorphic hardware. The proposed VDSP learning rule…