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The N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) is a crucial component of synaptic transmission, and its dysfunction is implicated in many neurological diseases and psychiatric conditions. NMDAR-based short-term postsynaptic plasticity (STPP) is…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-09-28 Huilin Zhao , Sungchil Yang , Chi Chung Alan Fung

We study the storage of multiple phase-coded patterns as stable dynamical attractors in recurrent neural networks with sparse connectivity. To determine the synaptic strength of existent connections and store the phase-coded patterns, we…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-28 Siliva Scarpetta , Ferdinando Giacco , Antonio de Candia

Memories are stored, at least partly, as patterns of strong synapses. Given molecular turnover, how can synapses maintain strong for the years that memories can persist? Some models postulate that biochemical bistability maintains strong…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-09 Paul Smolen

Understanding how biological neural networks carry out learning using spike-based local plasticity mechanisms can lead to the development of powerful, energy-efficient, and adaptive neuromorphic processing systems. A large number of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Lyes Khacef , Philipp Klein , Matteo Cartiglia , Arianna Rubino , Giacomo Indiveri , Elisabetta Chicca

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

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) could play a key role in unsupervised machine learning applications, by virtue of strengths related to learning from the fine temporal structure of event-based signals. However, some spike-timing-related…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Timoleon Moraitis , Abu Sebastian , Irem Boybat , Manuel Le Gallo , Tomas Tuma , Evangelos Eleftheriou

Inspired by spiking neural feedback, we propose a spiking controller for efficient locomotion in a soft robotic crawler. Its bistability, akin to neural fast positive feedback, combined with a sensorimotor slow negative feedback loop,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-19 Juncal Arbelaiz , Alessio Franci , Naomi Ehrich Leonard , Rodolphe Sepulchre , Bassam Bamieh

Behavioral changes in animals and humans, as a consequence of an error or a verbal instruction, can be extremely rapid. Improvement in behavioral performances are usually associated in machine learning and reinforcement learning to synaptic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-12 Cristiano Capone , Luca Falorsi

Synaptic plasticity is the capacity of a preexisting connection between two neurons to change in strength as a function of neural activity. Because synaptic plasticity is the major candidate mechanism for learning and memory, the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-05 Maurizio De Pittà , Nicolas Brunel , Andrea Volterra

In many normative theories of synaptic plasticity, weight updates implicitly depend on the chosen parametrization of the weights. This problem relates, for example, to neuronal morphology: synapses which are functionally equivalent in terms…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-25 Elena Kreutzer , Walter M. Senn , Mihai A. Petrovici

This article underlines the learning and discrimination capabilities of a model of associative memory based on artificial networks of spiking neurons. Inspired from neuropsychology and neurobiology, the model implements top-down…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Anthony Mouraud , Hélène Paugam-Moisy

In recurrent networks of leaky integrate-and-fire (LIF) neurons, mean-field theory has proven successful in describing various statistical properties of neuronal activity at equilibrium, such as firing rate distributions. Mean-field theory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-10 Marina Vegué , Antoine Allard , Patrick Desrosiers

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) employing unsupervised learning methods inspired by neural plasticity are expected to be a new framework for artificial intelligence. In this study, we investigated the effect of multiple types of neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Shinnosuke Touda , Hirotsugu Okuno

Network remodeling, or adaptation, in the presence of periodically driven forcings has hereto remained largely unexplored, despite the fact that a broad class of biological transport networks, e.g. animal vasculature, depends on periodic…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2026-01-01 Purba Chatterjee , Eleni Katifori

Spike-timing-dependent-plasticity (STDP) is an unsupervised learning algorithm for spiking neural network (SNN), which promises to achieve deeper understanding of human brain and more powerful artificial intelligence. While conventional…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Xueyuan She , Yun Long , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

This paper presents a constructive algorithm that achieves successful one-shot learning of hidden spike-patterns in a competitive detection task. It has previously been shown (Masquelier et al., 2008) that spike-timing-dependent plasticity…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-08-31 Toby Lightheart , Steven Grainger , Tien-Fu Lu

In this paper, we study the effects of spike timing-dependent plasticity on synchronisation in a network of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons. Neuron plasticity is a flexible property of a neuron and its network to change temporarily or permanently…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-10 R. R. Borges , F. S. Borges , A. M. Batista , E. L. Lameu , R. L. Viana , K. C. Iarosz , I. L. Caldas , M. A. F. Sanjuán

Neuromorphic computing aims to develop energy-efficient devices that mimic biological synapses. One promising approach involves memristive devices that can dynamically adjust their electrical resistance in response to stimuli, similar to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-16 Walter Quiñonez , Anouk Goossens , Diego Rubi , Tamalika Banerjee , María José Sánchez

Continuous adaptation allows survival in an ever-changing world. Adjustments in the synaptic coupling strength between neurons are essential for this capability, setting us apart from simpler, hard-wired organisms. How these changes can be…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-06 Jakob Jordan , Maximilian Schmidt , Walter Senn , Mihai A. Petrovici

Efficient path planning and navigation is critical for animals, robotics, logistics and transportation. We study a model in which spatial navigation problems can rapidly be solved in the brain by parallel mental exploration of alternative…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2012-05-03 Filip Ponulak , John J. Hopfield