Noam Ziv (The Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
The Bernstein Center Freiburg Bernstein Seminar | |
Noam Ziv The Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for Life Sciences and Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel Synaptic tenacity: When everything changes, do things really stay the same? | |
Tuesday, February 26, 2013 17:15 h | Lecture Hall (ground floor) Bernstein Center Freiburg Hansastraße 9A 79104 Freiburg |
Abstract: Activity-dependent modifications to synaptic connections - synaptic plasticity – is widely believed to represent a fundamental mechanism for altering network function, giving rise to emergent phenomena commonly referred to as learning and memory. This belief also implies, however, that synapses, when not driven to change their properties by physiologically relevant stimuli, should retain these properties over time. Otherwise, physiologically relevant modifications would be gradually lost amidst spurious changes and spontaneous drift. We refer to the expected tendency of synapses to hold onto their properties as "synaptic tenacity". | |
Host: Ulrich Egert | |
The talk is open to the public. Guests are cordially invited! www.bcf.uni-freiburg.de |