… paper are based on a recent book on spiking neuron models (Gerstner and Kistler 2002). …
the learning window was taken equal to 1 ms (Gerstner and van Hemmen 1993). If the width of …

Neurons in the brain communicate by short electrical pulses, the so-called action potentials
or spikes. How can we understand the process of spike generation? How can we understand …

A PARADOX that exists in auditory and electrosensory neural systems 1,2 is that they encode
behaviourally relevant signals in the range of a few microseconds with neurons that are at …

Computational neuroscience has contributed significantly to our understanding of higher
brain function by combining experimental neurobiology, psychophysics, modeling, and …

… by .w = 0, and therefore also by w/ν 2 = 0. Figure 6 plots (18) for a range of w and a variety
… STDP the curves pass through w/ν 2 = 0 at an intermediate value of w and with a negative …

… In 1993, Gerstner and colleagues proposed that potentiation of synaptic strength can only
be triggered if a postsynaptic spike coincides with the EPSP caused by incoming synaptic …

… 2, we define the width W of the learning window W(s) and consider the case TW… W,W. Formally
we require … of the learning process we need the integrals W(0)ªds W(s) and ds W(s)2. The …

… The model has been discussed in extenso by Gerstner and van Hemmen (1992a) and will
be reviewed briefly here. In a noiseless idealization, a spike would be induced as soon as the …

Electrophysiological connectivity patterns in cortex often have a few strong connections,
which are sometimes bidirectional, among a lot of weak connections. To explain these …

… Additional resources for this publication at www.cambridge.org/gerstner … Wulfram
Gerstner wrote the first drafts of Parts III and IV and contributed text to all other chapters. …