Long-Term Potentiation and Neural Coding as a Single Dynamical Process

| Because we think of learning and computation in terms of separate a priori categories, we naturally consider them as separate processes in neural networks. Our pre-conceptions do not translate into imperatives for Nature, however. We present an overview of work carried out by the HKUST Biocomputing Group which shows that some learning mechanisms must be considered as inseparable parts of the synaptic coding process, leading to the consideration of coding in the presence of learning-mediated changes.