In article <Pine.SCO.3.95.960930114945.24341A-100000 at lex.lccc.edu>, Ron Blue (rcb1 at LEX.LCCC.EDU) writes:
>On 29 Sep 1996, Stephen Black wrote:
>>>>CUT>>>
>Oscillons are formed when you viberate a grandular material with two or
>more frequencies. One oscillon structure resembles a gaussian mountain.
>It oscillated into a gaussian hole, then into a gaussian mountain.
>>Oscillons can form in ANY oscillating system. Oscillons of opposite
>symetry are attracted to each other and form oscillon pairs of reverse
>polarity. Oscillons of similar charge and harmonic repell each other.
>>Since the backward propagation wave reduces the uptake of neurotranmitters
>at the synapses it should result in reducing the oscillations of the
>sender via long term potentiation. In a way this is like an effort
>to maintain a constant voltage oscillon for a nerve fiber in a very
>narron gaussian oscillon range.
>>Ron Blue
>>Nature 29 August 1996 - oscillons
>sorry I do not have the name of the article with me.
Article is "Redistribution of synaptice efficacy between
neocortical pyramidal neurons" Henry Markram & Misha Tsodyks, pp807
et seq.
Cheers! Gord
