Cortical rewiring and information storage

Chklovskii, D. B., Mel, B. W., Svoboda, K. (October 2004) Cortical rewiring and information storage. Nature, 431 (7010). pp. 782-788. ISSN 0028-0836

URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15483599
DOI: 10.1038/nature03012

Abstract

Current thinking about long-term memory in the cortex is focused on changes in the strengths of connections between neurons. But ongoing structural plasticity in the adult brain, including synapse formation/elimination and remodelling of axons and dendrites, suggests that memory could also depend on learning-induced changes in the cortical 'wiring diagram'. Given that the cortex is sparsely connected, wiring plasticity could provide a substantial boost in storage capacity, although at a cost of more elaborate biological machinery and slower learning.

Item Type: Paper
Uncontrolled Keywords: RAT BARREL CORTEX rat barrel cortex IN-VIVO in-vivo PYRAMIDAL NEURONS pyramidal neurons VISUAL-CORTEX visual cortex DEPENDENT PLASTICITY plasticity SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY synaptic DENDRITIC SPINES dendritic spines SILENT SYNAPSES silent synapsis NMDA RECEPTOR nmda receptor GLUTAMATERGIC SYNAPSE glutamatergic synapse
Subjects: organs, tissues, organelles, cell types and functions > tissues types and functions > visual cortex
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Communities: CSHL labs > Chklovskii lab
CSHL labs > Svoboda lab
Depositing User: CSHL Librarian
Date: October 2004
Date Deposited: 09 Feb 2012 16:17
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2017 17:59
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URI: https://repository.cshl.edu/id/eprint/22352

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