Cortical plasticity: from synapses to maps.

By Dean V. Buonomano, Michael M. Merzenich. 1998

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Tag-Trigger-Consolidation: A Model of Early and Late Long-Term-Potentiation and Depression (2008, background): “Second, on the level of neuronal representation in cortical areas, one finds representations of input features that are stable but at the same time sufficiently plastic to adjust to new situations [18].”
Phantom percepts: Tinnitus and pain as persisting aversive memory networks (2011, background): “Topographic development and reorganization in all sensory areas of adult cortex are governed by similar/common mechanisms of synaptic plasticity (23), likely explaining the analogy between phantom pain and tinnitus.”
Cognitive motor processes: the role of motor imagery in the study of motor representations. (2009, background): “The physiological basis might be associated with the phenomenon that cortical representations of the adult brain are not fixed but highly dynamic (Buonomano and Merzenich, 1998; Spitzer, 1999).”
Plasticity and primary motor cortex. (2000, background): “Similar patterns of connections are present throughout neocortex, and as described earlier, activity-driven synaptic modification is a widespread phenomenon in the adult central nervous system (Kaas 1991, Donoghue 1995, Buonomano & Merzenich 1998).”
Effects of memory training on cortical thickness in the elderly (2010, background): “Plasticity and reorganization of neural systems have recently been studied in both animals and humans (Buonomano and Merzenich, 1998; DeFelipe, 2006; Jones et al., 2006; Martin et al., 2000).”
On the design of neural networks in the brain by genetic evolution. (2000, background): “For this, the genes might specify NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors on the post-synaptic neurons together with the linked intracellular processes that implement LTP (Rolls and Treves, 1998; Wang et al., 1997; Buonomano and Merzenich, 1998).”
The Neural Basis of Timing: Distributed Mechanisms for Diverse Functions (2018, background): “…significantly constrain the location and mechanisms of spatial pattern discrimination; and (2) identification of neurons that respond selectivity to specific spatial patterns, and how neural tuning changes with learning (Buonomano and Merzenich, 1998; Karmarkar and Dan, 2006; Gilbert et al., 2009).”
Synaptic modification by correlated activity: Hebb's postulate revisited. (2001, background): “…1973), similar synaptic potentiation has been found in many areas of the central and peripheral nervous systems of both vertebrates and invertebrates (Teyler & DiScenna 1987, Brown et al 1990, Bliss & Collingridge 1993, Buonomano & Merzenich 1998, Milner et al 1998, Malenka & Nicoll 1999).”
An information integration theory of consciousness (2004, background): “What matters here is that such perceptual learning depends upon specific changes in the physical substrate of our consciousness – notably a refinement and rearranging of connections patterns among neurons in appropriate parts of the thalamocortical system (e.g [ 11 ]).”
Experience-dependent structural synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain (2009, background): “, a phenomenon that may underlie functional reorganization of cortical map”
Incorporating Cross-Modal Statistics in the Development and Maintenance of Multisensory Integration (2012, background): “This period of multisensory maturation normally takes place over the first few months of life when the brain is highly plastic (Wiesel and Hubel, 1965; Simons and Land, 1987; Buonomano and Merzenich, 1998; Feldman, 2001; Rauschecker, 2002; Li et al., 2006; Sanes and Bao, 2009).”
A theory of cortical responses (2005, background): “This is a large and fascinating field that ranges from molecules to maps (e.g. Buonomano & Merzenich 1998; Martin et al. 2000).”
Connectivity reflects coding: a model of voltage-based STDP with homeostasis (2010, methodology): “(a) Normalized weight as a function of the number of postsynaptic spikes (1, 2, 3) at 50 Hz (dots represent data from ref.”