Behavioral plasticity: modulation occurs across time.
Modulatory inputs alter neural network activity, which, for instance, helps explain why mood affects cognition. Some neurons modulate their own networks. This 'intrinsic' modulatory feedback implies that a network's history could partially determine its present activity.
Hooper
Scott L
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Neuroscience Program, Department of Biological Sciences, Irvine Hall, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA. hooper@ohio.edu
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