Cell-type–specific neuromodulation guides synaptic credit assignment in a spiking neural network

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2111821118
• Publication Date: 2021-12-16T21:15:24Z
• Authors: Yuhan Helena Liu; Stephen Smith; Stefan Mihalas; Eric Shea-Brown; Uygar Sümbül
• Keywords: Neuromodulation; Hebbian theory

Significance Synaptic connectivity provides the foundation for our present understanding of neuronal network function, but static cannot explain learning and memory. We propose a computational role diversity cortical types their associated cell-type–specific neuromodulators in improving efficiency synaptic weight adjustments task networks.