Determinants of gain modulation enabled by short-term depression at an inhibitory cerebellar synapse

Abstract from the 23rd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS 2014. © 2014 Bampasakis et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise statedNeurons adapt rapidly the slope, also known as gain, of their input-output function to time-varying conditions. Gain modulation is a prominent mechanism in many brain processes, such as auditory processing and attention scaling of orientation tuning curves.Peer reviewe