Beyond Pair-Based STDP: A Phenomenological Rule for Spike Triplet and Frequency Effects

Abstract

While classical experiments on spike-timing dependent plasticity analyzed synaptic changes as a function of the timing of pairs of pre- and postsynaptic spikes, more recent experiments also point to the effect of spike triplets. Here we develop a mathematical framework that allows us to characterize timing based learning rules. Moreover, we identify a candidate learning rule with five variables (and 5 free parameters) that captures a variety of experimental data, including the dependence of potentiation and depression upon pre- and postsynaptic firing frequencies. The relation to the Bienenstock-Cooper-Munro rule as well as to some timing-based rules is discussed.

Cite

Text

Pfister and Gerstner. "Beyond Pair-Based STDP: A Phenomenological Rule for Spike Triplet and Frequency Effects." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2005.

Markdown

[Pfister and Gerstner. "Beyond Pair-Based STDP: A Phenomenological Rule for Spike Triplet and Frequency Effects." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2005.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2005/pfister2005neurips-beyond/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{pfister2005neurips-beyond,
  title     = {{Beyond Pair-Based STDP: A Phenomenological Rule for Spike Triplet and Frequency Effects}},
  author    = {Pfister, Jean-pascal and Gerstner, Wulfram},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {2005},
  pages     = {1081-1088},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2005/pfister2005neurips-beyond/}
}