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Mu-Ming Poo’s lab (which in 1998 found a very impressive result in hippocampal culture where excitatory synapses are potentiated when a Hebb-like protocol is used on the pre- and post-synaptic cell) has recently added two new Hebbian rules also found in hippocampal cell culture.

The first one applies to inhibitory hippocampal synapses (Neuron, Aug 2003) and the second one applies to spike trains in the mossy fiber pathway (Neuron, Feb 2004). The relative spike timing between the pre and post cells results in different amounts of potentiation/depression depending on the synapse type.

Some questions: Are there many different STDP rules? Or, are we missing the bigger picture (ie. a more general rule) of which these are all only specific examples? (Remember, this is just in hippocampus!)

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2004 at 12:57 am by Neville Sanjana and is filed under Cellular learning. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.