Self-Organization of Microcircuits in Networks of Spiking Neurons with Plastic Synapses

Gabriel Koch Ocker; Ashok Litwin-Kumar; Brent Doiron

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004458

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Self-Organization of Microcircuits in Networks of Spiking Neurons with Plastic Synapses

Gabriel Koch Ocker,

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Ashok Litwin-Kumar,

Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Brent Doiron

* E-mail: bdoiron@pitt.edu

Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
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Self-Organization of Microcircuits in Networks of Spiking Neurons with Plastic Synapses

Gabriel Koch Ocker,
Ashok Litwin-Kumar,
Brent Doiron

Published: August 20, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004458

About the Authors

Gabriel Koch Ocker

Affiliations Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Ashok Litwin-Kumar

Affiliations Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Brent Doiron

* E-mail: bdoiron@pitt.edu

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GKO ALK BD. Performed the experiments: GKO. Analyzed the data: GKO. Wrote the paper: GKO ALK BD.

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