STDP learning rules and plasticity in a small olfactory system

This second talk will focus on olfactory circuits in the context of learning. I will present first a couple of non-associative phenomena, both linking plasticity and synchrony. I will then describe more recent work connecting STDP and reward signals, indicating that STDP rules are labile and influenced by the context in which they are being used. 

If time allows, I will present the outlines of the new work that we started at MPI Brain Research, on computation in an ancient cortex.Prof. Gilles Laurent is hosted by the students of the Dept of Neurobiology, as a part of the departmental of neurobiology-invited lecture series in Brain Sciences. For more details please contact Michael Yartsev: myartsev@gmail.com