Neural Plasticity is an international, interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the publication of articles related to all aspects of neural plasticity, with special emphasis on its functional significance as reflected in behavior and in psychopathology. Neural Plasticity publishes research and review articles ...
Prior researchers have shown that the brain has a remarkable ability for adapting to environmental changes. The positive effects of such neural plasticity include enhanced functioning in specific cognitive domains and shifts in cortical representation following naturally occurring cases of sensory deprivation...
it is not surprising that aged animals also show alterations in these processes. Notably, the immediate-early geneArc, which is known to be involved in plasticity, shows differences in expression patterns between young and old rats.
One of the most intriguing features of the brain is its ability to be malleable, allowing it to adapt continually to changes in the environment. Specific neuronal activity patterns drive long-lasting increases or decreases in the strength of synaptic connections, referred to as long-term potentiatio...
Jason Castro
Neurophysiological studies of animals raised with abnormal sensory inputs show that the map of auditory space in the superior colliculus is shaped during development by both auditory and visual experience. An example of this plasticity is provided by monaural occlusion during infancy, which leads to ...
Spiking neural networks are of high current interest, both from the perspective of modelling neural networks of the brain and for porting their fast learning capability and energy efficiency into neuromorphic hardware. But so far we have not been able to
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The ANN technique was initially presented in 1943. It is an information-processing method that simulates the human brain and the nervous system regarding features such as learning ability, creativity, intelligence, generalization, and flexibility. The ANN trains the network through a learning process....
Recent genetic tools now allow one to reproducibly and specifically manipulate the activity of many neuron types in the fly brain. This ability to directly influence the function of specific cells is a key feature of the studies emphasized here. 3. Cell-specific gene express...