Neuroscientists believe that synaptic plasticity, as these changes are called, plays an important role in storing memories. However, the rules governing when and how much synapses change are not well ...

Neurons communicate with each other by passing millisecond-long signals across tiny junctions called synapses. Experiences ...

New research from the University of Chicago challenges long-held beliefs about how synaptic plasticity contributes to memory ...

Researchers have developed DELTA, a powerful new imaging method that maps brain-wide synaptic changes during learning.

Synaptic plasticity is the biological process by which specific patterns of synaptic activity result in changes in synaptic strength and is thought to contribute to learning and memory.

The role of the fast weights, δwi, is to transiently adjust neuronal output to suppress immediate errors – errors that can be predicted if y * changes slowly. The role of the slow weights, wi, is to ...

New research on the hippocampus, a brain area essential for memory, suggests that new rules of synaptic plasticity best explain how brain activity continually reshapes the way memories are recorded in ...

NUS researchers have demonstrated a single, standard silicon transistor can function like a biological neuron and synapse ...

The three scientists each study different aspects of protein production in neurons in the context of synaptic plasticity. In his early work, Greenberg, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School, ...

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