Discrimination of Motion Direction in a Robot Using a Phenomenological Model of Synaptic Plasticity

Figure 8

Parameters related to the efficacy of synaptic transmission during left and right motion discrimination. (a) Average synaptic resources available within each subpopulation. (b) Average neurotransmitter release probability in the synaptic connections within each subpopulation. Notice that the temporal evolution of the release probability is the same for subpop 1-right motion and subpop 2-left motion because their average initial release probability recruited for left and right motion is the same (Figure 4(b)).

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