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Neuroscience Learning Brain Synaptic plasticity Synapses LTP Hebbian Backpropagation Machine Learning

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To try everything Brilliant has to offer—free—for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/ArtemKirsanov . You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription ===== My name is Artem, I'm a neuroscience PhD student at Harvard University. 🌎 Website and Social links: https://kirsanov.ai/ 📥 "Receptive Field" neuro-newsletter: https://artemkirsanov.substack.com/ ✨ Support me on Patreon to get access to Discord community: https://patreon.com/artemkirsanov ===== In this video we explore a recent study published in Science, which revealed that different compartments of pyramidal neurons (apical vs basal dendrites) use different plasticity rules for learning. 🕒 OUTLINE: 00:00 Introduction 01:23 Synaptic transmission 06:09 Molecular machinery of LTP 08:40 Hebbian plasticity 11:21 Non-Hebbian plasticity 12:51 Hypothesis 14:42 Experimental methods 17:10 Result: compartmentalized plasticity 19:30 Interpretation 22:01 Brilliant 23:08 Outro 📚 FURTHER READING & REFERENCES: Link to the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads4706 ===== Music by Artlist This video was sponsored by Brilliant ===== *Disclaimer:* This channel is my personal project. The views and content expressed here are my own and are separate from my research role at Harvard University. #neuroscience #neurons #biology _Description remastered: February 2026. Links & Bio updated; original context preserved._