Redundancy Reduction and Sustained Firing with Stochastic Depressing Synapses

This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant MH58754, National Science Foundation Grant IBN-9817194, the Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at Brandeis University, and the W. M. Keck Foundation. Experiments were performed in the laboratory of Charlie Gray, and we thank him for his assistance. We thank Sacha Nelson, Geoff Hinton, Ken Sugino, and John Birmingham for helpful discussions.

Correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Mark Goldman, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E25-210, 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MA 02139. E-mail:mark_g{at}mit.edu.