Showing papers by "Claudia Clopath published in 2009"
TL;DR: It is shown that in a simulated recurrent network of spiking neurons the plasticity rule leads not only to receptive field development, but also to connectivity patterns that reflect the neural code: for temporal coding paradigms strong connections are predominantly unidirectional, whereas they are bidirectional under rate coding.
Abstract: Electrophysiological connectivity patterns in cortex often show a few strong connections in a sea of weak connections. In some brain areas a large fraction of strong connections are bidirectional, in others they are mainly unidirectional. In order to explain these connectivity patterns, we use a model of Spike-TimingDependent Plasticity where synaptic changes depend on presynaptic spike arrival and the postsynaptic membrane potential, filtered with two different time constants. The model describes several nonlinear effects in STDP experiments, as well as the voltage dependence of plasticity under voltage clamp and classical paradigms of LTP/LTD induction. We show that in a simulated recurrent network of spiking neurons our plasticity rule leads not only to receptive field development, but also to connectivity patterns that reflect the neural code: for temporal coding paradigms strong connections are predominantly unidirectional, whereas they are bidirectional under rate coding. Thus variable connectivity patterns in the brain could reflect different coding principles across brain areas; moreover our simulations suggest that rewiring the network can be surprisingly fast.
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