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SUBMITTER: Popovych OV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4070574 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Popovych Oleksandr V OV Yanchuk Serhiy S Tass Peter A PA
Scientific reports 20131011
Intuitively one might expect independent noise to be a powerful tool for desynchronizing a population of synchronized neurons. We here show that, intriguingly, for oscillatory neural populations with adaptive synaptic weights governed by spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) the opposite is true. We found that the mean synaptic coupling in such systems increases dynamically in response to the increase of the noise intensity, and there is an optimal noise level, where the amount of synaptic co ...[more]