Редактирование: Whole brain emulation (раздел)

=== Synaptic Adaptation ===

* Synapses are usually characterized by their “strength”, the size of the postsynaptic potential 
they produce in response to a given magnitude of incoming excitation. Many (most?) 
synapses in the CNS also exhibit depression and/or facilitation: a temporary change in release 
probability caused by repeated activity (Thomson, 2000). This rapid dynamics likely plays a 
role in a variety of brain functions, such as temporal filtering (Fortune and Rose, 2001 ), 
auditory processing (Macleod, Horiuchi et al., 2007) and motor control (Nadim and Manor, 
2000). These changes occur on timescales longer than neural activity (tens of milliseconds) but 
shorter than long‐term synaptic plasticity (minutes to hours). Adaptation has already been 
included in numerous computational models. The computational load is usually 1‐3 extra 
state variables in each synapse.