Topic: synapse modulation

In addition to long-time scale rewiring, synapses in the brain are subject to significant modulation that occurs at much shorter time scales and allows them to process short-term information. Despite this, models of the brain like recurrent neural networks (RNNs) often have their weights frozen after training, relying on an internal state stored in neuron activity to process temporal information. Although networks with dynamical synapses have been explored previously, often said dynamics are added to networks that also have recurrent connections and thus the short-time scale computational capa