NEST-Compatible Plasticity Models

Activity-dependent plasticity synapse models compatible with the NEST simulator. All classes inherit from NESTPlasticity. For static and structural synapse models see NEST-Compatible Synapse Models.

Short-Term Plasticity (STP)

Transient, reversible weight changes on the timescale of individual spikes, following the Tsodyks-Markram formalism.

tsodyks_synapse	Tsodyks, Uziel & Markram (2000) short-term-plasticity synapse spec.
tsodyks_synapse_hom	Homogeneous Tsodyks (2000) short-term-plasticity synapse spec.
tsodyks2_synapse	Tsodyks (2-variable) short-term-plasticity synapse spec.
quantal_stp_synapse	Quantal (binomial) short-term-plasticity synapse spec.

Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity (STDP)

Long-term weight changes driven by the relative timing of pre- and post-synaptic spikes.

stdp_synapse	Pair-based spike-timing-dependent plasticity synapse spec (NEST stdp_synapse).
stdp_synapse_hom	Homogeneous (shared-parameter) pair-based STDP synapse spec (NEST stdp_synapse_hom).
stdp_pl_synapse_hom	Power-law spike-timing-dependent plasticity synapse spec (NEST stdp_pl_synapse_hom).
stdp_facetshw_synapse_hom	FACETS/BrainScaleS hardware STDP synapse spec (NEST stdp_facetshw_synapse_hom).
stdp_nn_pre_centered_synapse	Presynaptic-centered nearest-neighbour STDP synapse spec (NEST stdp_nn_pre_centered_synapse).
stdp_nn_restr_synapse	Restricted symmetric nearest-neighbour STDP synapse spec (NEST stdp_nn_restr_synapse).
stdp_nn_symm_synapse	Symmetric nearest-neighbour STDP synapse spec (NEST stdp_nn_symm_synapse).
stdp_triplet_synapse	Triplet spike-timing-dependent plasticity synapse spec (NEST stdp_triplet_synapse).
stdp_dopamine_synapse	Dopamine-modulated STDP synapse spec (NEST stdp_dopamine_synapse).

Voltage-Based / Specialised Learning Rules

Weight updates that depend on membrane voltage trajectories or supervised teaching signals.

clopath_synapse	Voltage-based spike-timing-dependent plasticity synapse spec (NEST clopath_synapse).
jonke_synapse	Exponential-weight-dependence STDP synapse spec (NEST jonke_synapse).
urbanczik_synapse	Dendritic prediction-error plasticity synapse spec (NEST urbanczik_synapse).
vogels_sprekeler_synapse	Symmetric inhibitory-plasticity synapse spec (NEST vogels_sprekeler_synapse).
ht_synapse	Hill-Tononi vesicle-pool depression synapse spec (NEST ht_synapse).