Interactive computational neuroscience: synapses and Hebbian learning
Synapses are the couplings between neurons, but they are much more than mere relays: they are the key to neural computation. Play with interative models in this post.
Interactive computational neuroscience: synapses and Hebbian learning launched on August 24, 2018 with 9 votes, #965 of 2,619 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
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Synapses are the couplings between neurons, allowing signals to pass from one neuron to another. However, synapses are much more than mere relays: they play an important role in neural computation. The ongoing dramas of excitation and inhibition and of synaptic potentiation and depression give rise to your abilities to make decisions, learn, and remember. It’s amazing, really: collections of these microscopic junctions in your head can represent all sorts of things — your pet’s name, the layout of the New York subway system, how to ride a bike… In this post, I give a rough overview of synapses: what they are, how they function, and how to model them. Specifically I…from jackterwilliger.com
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