Altered sensory filtering and coding properties by synaptic dynamics in the electric sense

This modeling study examines the short-term synaptic plasticity properties of the electrosensory lateral lobe (ELL) afferent pathway in the weakly electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus. We studied the possible functional consequences of a simple phenomenological model of synaptic depression by taking into consideration the available in vivo and in vitro results [N. Berman, L. Maler, Inhibition evoked from primary afferents in the electrosensory lateral line lobe of the weakly electric fish (Apteronotus leptorhynchus), J. Neurophysiol. 80(6) (1998) 3173

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: IJON
• Authors: Krisztina Szalisznyó, André Longtin, Leonard Maler
• Keywords: IJON 2006, Short-term Synaptic Plasticity, Synaptic Depression, Weakly Electric Fish