Short-term memory in neuron-astrocyte network

In this paper, we study the role of astrocyte-induced modulation of signal transmission in network of synaptically coupled spiking neurons in the mechanisms of the short-term memory formation. We show, that due to the local spatial synchronization of signaling in the neural network induced by the astrocyte during the duration of the Ca ²⁺ signal, the proposed neuron-astrocyte network can operate as a temporal Hopfield network.