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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 34: Neuroscience

BP 34.1: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 15, 2018, 15:00–15:30, H 1058

How do we learn? Synaptic Plasticity across multiple time scales — •Wulfram Gerstner — EPFL Lausanne

If we memorize a French word that is new to us, if we learn to play table tennis, if we meet our new boss, at all these occasions the connections between neurons in our brains change. These changes, called synaptic plasticity, happen on several different time scale: induction can be rapid (sometimes a single event is sufficient), but the stabilization of changes takes much longer. In this talk, I will overview mathematical models of synaptic plasticity that cover different temporal scales - and I will indicate how plasticity models can (or cannot) lead to functional memories.