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Cooperative synapse formation

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Cooperative synapse formation describes the mutual amplification of synapses. It is needed to explain the distribution of the number of synapses between neurons for example in a rat cortex.[1] Spike-Timing dependence of structural plasticity is capable of explaining the emergence of cooperative synapse formation.[2]

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  1. ^ Tarec Fares and Armen Stepanyants: Cooperative synapse formation in the neocortex, PNAS September 22, 2009 vol. 106 no. 38
  2. ^ Moritz Deger, Moritz Helias, Stefan Rotter, Markus Diesmann: Spike-Timing Dependence of Structural Plasticity Explains Cooperative Synapse Formation in the Neocortex, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002689