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Reducing Spike Train Variability: A Computational Theory Of Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity

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Reducing Spike Train Variability: A Computational Theory Of Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity
Experimental studies have observed synaptic potentiation when a presynaptic neuron fires shortly before a postsynaptic neuron, and synaptic depression when the presynaptic neuron fires shortly after. The dependence of synaptic modulation on the precise timing of the two action potentials is known as spike-timing dependent plasticity or STDP. We derive STDP from a simple computational principle: synapses adapt so as to minimize the postsynaptic neuron's variability to a given presynaptic input, causing the neuron's output to become more reliable in the face of noise. Using an entropy-minimization objective function and the biophysically realistic spike-response model of Gerstner (2001), we simulate neurophysiological experiments and obtain the characteristic STDP curve along with other phenomena including the reduction in synaptic plasticity as synaptic efficacy increases. We compare our account to other efforts to derive STDP from computational principles, and argue that our...
Sander M. Bohte, Michael C. Mozer
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Type Conference
Year 2004
Where NIPS
Authors Sander M. Bohte, Michael C. Mozer
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