Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features through Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity

Timothée Masquelier; Simon J Thorpe

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030031

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Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features through Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity

Timothée Masquelier ,

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: timothee.masquelier@alum.mit.edu

Affiliations Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine de Rangueil, Toulouse, France , SpikeNet Technology SARL, Labege, France
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Simon J Thorpe

Affiliations Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine de Rangueil, Toulouse, France , SpikeNet Technology SARL, Labege, France
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Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features through Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity

Timothée Masquelier,
Simon J Thorpe

Published: February 16, 2007
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030031

About the Authors

Timothée Masquelier

*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: timothee.masquelier@alum.mit.edu

Affiliations Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Paul Sabatier, Faculté de Médecine de Rangueil, Toulouse, France , SpikeNet Technology SARL, Labege, France

Simon J Thorpe

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

TM and SJT conceived and designed the experiments, TM performed the experiments and analyzed the data, and TM and SJT wrote the paper.

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