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Our review “The 3-Body Problem: How Astrocytes May Govern Plasticity” is now out in The Neuroscientist.
We explore the idea that astrocytes help determine when & where synaptic plasticity is permitted, reframing the credit assignment problem in biological circuits.
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The 3-Body Problem: How Astrocytes May Govern Plasticity - Airi Watanabe, Connie Guo, P. Jesper Sjöström, 2026
Learning and memory were long thought to be the domains of neurons and neural networks, but recent work across brain systems has established that astrocytes pla...