title: Neuronal Adaptation: Tired Neurons or Wired Networks?
abstract: Neuronal adaptation - time-dependent modulation of sensory responses following sequential stimuli - is thought to be a consequence of synaptic plasticity. But recent, empirically-grounded, modeling by Quiroga and colleagues demonstrates that the adaptation of visual cortical responses can be described by recurrent network connections with fixed synaptic weights.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. Electronic address: mayo@neuro.duke.edu.
authors.forename: J Patrick
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Mayo
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Electronic address: matt@smithlab.net.
authors.forename: Matthew A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D008959:Models, Neurological; D009415:Nerve Net; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity; D009474:Neurons; D014793:Visual Cortex
keywords: Adaptation; cortex; modeling; plasticity; recurrent dynamics; vision