Figure 1

Tagging and cross tagging paradigms. (A) A weak tetanus (21 pulses at 100 Hz) applied at a group of 100 synapses at t = 10 min (arrow) leads to an increased connection weight (blue line) that decays back to baseline. (B) A strong tetanus (100 pulses at 100 Hz repeated three times, arrows) leads to late LTP that is sustained for 5 hours (black line). (C) If the weak tetanus (blue arrow) in a first group of synapses is followed thirty minutes later by a strong tetanus (black arrows) in a second group of synapses, the weights in the first group (blue line) and the second group (black line) are stabilized above baseline. (D) Stimulating a group of synapses by a weak low-frequency stimulation (1 pulse repeated 900 times at 1 Hz, blue arrow) 30 minutes after the end of the strong tetanic stimulation of a second group also leads to stabilization of the weights in both groups. Lines indicate the result averaged over 10 repetitions of the simulation experiments and bars standard deviation.