Figure 5.

Adult lesion with continuous stimulation. Simulations in this figure use the same settings as in Figure 4. In addition, neurons outside the LPZ are continuously stimulated with a strong excitatory input beginning with the onset of the lesion at T = 1000 and lasting until T = 2700. Thereafter, neurons only receive the standard random input. Onset of lesion and stimulation as well as the turn off of stimulation is indicated by vertical lines. (A,B) Course of excitatory synapse numbers per neuron over time from 12 individual simulations. (C,D) Course of mean firing probability (black curve) and mean excitatory synapse numbers (red curve) averaged over simulations in (A,B). (E,F) Gives the development of synaptic elements over time averaged over the simulations in (A,B).