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Neural Computation

July 1, 2003, Vol. 15, No. 7, Pages 1511-1523
(doi: 10.1162/089976603321891783)
© 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Relating STDP to BCM
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Eugene M. Izhikevich
The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA, 92121, U.S.A., Eugene.Izhikevich@nsi.edu, www.nsi.edu/users/izhikevich
Niraj S. Desai
The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, CA, 92121, U.S.A., desai@nsi.edu
Abstract

We demonstrate that the BCM learning rule follows directly from STDP when pre- and postsynaptic neurons fire uncorrelated or weakly correlated Poisson spike trains, and only nearest-neighbor spike interactions are taken into account.