Neural Computation (2003) 15:1511–1523

Eugene M. Izhikevich and Niraj S. Desai

The Neurosciences Institute,
10640 John Jay Hopkins Drive,
San Diego, CA, 92121.

Abstract. We demonstrate that the BCM learning rule follows directly from STDP when 1) pre- and post-synaptic neurons fire uncorrelated or weakly correlated Poisson spike trains, and 2) only nearest-neighbor spike interactions are taken into account.