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SUBMITTER: Costa RP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5626823 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Costa Rui Ponte RP Padamsey Zahid Z D'Amour James A JA Emptage Nigel J NJ Froemke Robert C RC Vogels Tim P TP
Neuron 20170901 1
Long-term modifications of neuronal connections are critical for reliable memory storage in the brain. However, their locus of expression-pre- or postsynaptic-is highly variable. Here we introduce a theoretical framework in which long-term plasticity performs an optimization of the postsynaptic response statistics toward a given mean with minimal variance. Consequently, the state of the synapse at the time of plasticity induction determines the ratio of pre- and postsynaptic modifications. Our t ...[more]