Table 1.

Selection of experimental results addressing the interaction of neuromodulation and STDP.

		Interaction type	Quantitative neuromodulation	Neuromodulator timing	Details
Dopamine	Bissière et al., 2003	Inhibition-mediated gating	Baseline vs. bath application	5–10 min around stimulation	Lateral amygdala, mouse slice
	Pawlak and Kerr, 2008	Gating	Baseline vs. bath application	Always in bath	Corticostriatal, rat slice
	Shen et al., 2008	Gating	Baseline vs. bath application	Always in bath	Corticostriatal, mouse slice
	Zhang et al., 2009	Window shape alteration	Baseline vs. bath application	10 min around stimulation	Hippocampal culture, rat
	Xu and Yao, 2010	Inhibition-mediated gating	Baseline vs. bath application	5–10 min around stimulation	Prefrontal cortex, mouse slice
	Schulz et al., 2010	Unclear, gating of anti-Hebbian STDP?	Physiological via visual input and disinhibition of SC	100–250 ms after pairing	Corticostriatal, mouse Anesthesized
Non-dopamine	Lin et al., 2003	Window shape alteration	Baseline vs. bath application	Always in bath	Noradrenaline, hippocampus, rat
	Seol et al., 2007	Window shape alteration	Baseline vs. varying concentrations of two neuromodulators	10 min application, 10–60 min prior to stimulation	Acetylcholine and noradrenaline, visual cortex, rat
	Couey et al., 2007	Window shape alteration	Baseline vs. bath application	5–10 min around stimulation	Acetylcholine, prefrontal cortex, mouse