Lecture 12 PDF

Synapses, signal functions, distributed learning

Neurobiology of chemical synapses, neuromodulators, and short–term synaptic plasticity
Retrograde messengers
ART 3: Chemical transmitters, retrograde messengers, and neuromodulators for implementing parallel memory search
Distributed outstar learning and rules of synaptic transmission

Physiology of chemical synapses

• Kandel, Eric R., Schwartz, James H., and Jessell, Thomas P. (Eds.) (2000) Principles of Neural Science. 4th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 175-186.
  • Chapter 10: Eric R. Kandel and Steven A. Siegelbaum. Overview of synaptic transmission.
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse

• Zucker, Robert S. (1989) Short–term synaptic plasticity. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 12, pp. 13–31. CC

Retrograde messengers and ART 3

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrograde_signaling_in_LTP

• Kiss, János P., and Vizi, E. Sylvester (2001) Nitric oxide: a novel link between synaptic and nonsynaptic transmission. Trends in Neurosciences, 24, 211-215. CC

• Carpenter, Gail A., and Grossberg, Stephen (1990) ART 3: Hierarchical search using chemical transmitters in self–organizing pattern recognition architectures. Neural Networks, 3, 129–152. CC

Rules of synaptic transmission and distributed outstar learning

• Carpenter, Gail A. (1994) A distributed outstar network for spatial pattern learning. Neural Networks, 7, 159–168. CC