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1. Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function

   Competitive Hebbian learning through spike-timing-dependent synaptic plasticity

   Song, Miller and Abbott · Nature Neuroscience · 2000

   Using modelling, the paper shows that spike-timing-dependent plasticity can supply the competition between synapses that Hebbian learning needs, strengthening well-timed or correlated inputs and weakening others.

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   1. Supported · 71%In computer models, spike-timing-dependent plasticity can automatically balance synaptic strengths, making a neuron's firing irregular but more sensitive to input timing.“In modeling studies, we find that this form of synaptic modification can automatically balance synaptic strengths to make postsynaptic firing irregular but more sensitive to presynaptic spike timing.”