Hebbian plasticity

The cell cannot tell which synapses caused its spike. It credits every synapse that was active in the few tens of milliseconds before the spike, and debits any that arrive just after. Weights carry over between protocols until you reset them.

simulated time0.000 s1× real time

Protocol run in order

Settings

Cell fires 10 ms after the pattern
Between slow-motion pairings

Readout

Membrane potential−70.0 mV
Cell firing rate0.0 Hz
No pattern presented—

Last 20 presentations. Filled means the synapses alone fired the cell within 9 ms of the pattern, with no current pulse involved.

The cell

Sweeps around each pattern last 15; bold is the pairing in slow motion

Synaptic weights EPSP amplitude, mV; dashed is the starting value

Continuous recording 2 s window; ▲ current pulse; shaded stretches ran in slow motion