Neuronal Adaptation: Tired Neurons or Wired Networks?

J Patrick Mayo; Matthew A Smith

doi:10.1016/j.tins.2016.12.001

Neuronal Adaptation: Tired Neurons or Wired Networks?

Trends Neurosci. 2017 Mar;40(3):127-128. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2016.12.001. Epub 2016 Dec 22.

Authors

J Patrick Mayo¹, Matthew A Smith²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 28017499
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2016.12.001

Abstract

Neuronal adaptation - time-dependent modulation of sensory responses following sequential stimuli - is thought to be a consequence of synaptic plasticity. But recent, empirically-grounded, modeling by Quiroga and colleagues demonstrates that the adaptation of visual cortical responses can be described by recurrent network connections with fixed synaptic weights.

Keywords: Adaptation; cortex; modeling; plasticity; recurrent dynamics; vision.

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MeSH terms

Models, Neurological*
Nerve Net*
Neuronal Plasticity
Neurons
Visual Cortex