HIERARCHICAL MODULARITY OF THE FUNCTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK ORGANIZED BY SPIKE TIMING DEPENDENT SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY.

We study the emergent functional neural network organized by synaptic reorganization by the spike timing dependent synaptic plasticity (STDP). We show that small-world and scale-free functional structures organized by STDP, in the case of synaptic balance, exhibit hierarchial modularity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]