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Backward reasoning the formation rules

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Synaptic plasticity during learning is as fundamental as it is hard to study. The underlying synaptic plasticity rule has now been inferred using only the firing rate statistics of visual neurons in monkeys before and after learning.

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Figure 1: Inferring the plasticity rule from firing rate distributions.

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  1. Walter Senn and João Sacramento are in the Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland,

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  2. Walter Senn is also at the Center for Learning, Cognition and Memory, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,

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Senn, W., Sacramento, J. Backward reasoning the formation rules. Nat Neurosci 18, 1705–1706 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4172

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