Optical Neural Network - wikipedia.org  ## Metadata - Author: **wikipedia.org** - Full Title: Optical Neural Network - Category: #articles - URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_neural_network ## Highlights - Optical interfaces to [biological neural networks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_neural_network) can be created with [optogenetics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics), but is not the same as an optical neural networks. In biological neural networks there exist a lot of different mechanisms for dynamically changing the state of the neurons, these include short-term and long-term [synaptic plasticity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_plasticity). Synaptic plasticity is among the electrophysiological phenomena used to control the efficiency of synaptic transmission, long-term for learning and memory, and short-term for short transient changes in synaptic transmission efficiency ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hn4qjyw5ap150q4zw6gpm6sr))