A history of spike-timing-dependent plasticity

How learning and memory is achieved in the brain is a central question in neuroscience research. Key to today’s research into information storage in the brain is the concept of synaptic plasticity, a notion that has been heavily influenced by Donald Hebb’s 1949 postulate. Hebb conjectured that repea...

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Main Authors: Henry eMarkram, Wulfram eGerstner, Per Jesper eSjöström
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsyn.2011.00004/full