2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/113172Using a realistic model of activity dependent dynamical synapses and a standard integrate and fire neuron model we study, both analytically and numerically, the conditions in which a postsynaptic neuron efficiently detects temporal coincidences of spikes arriving at certain frequency from N different afferents. We extend a previous work that only considers synaptic depression as the most important mechanism in the transmission of information through synapses, to a more general situation including also synaptic facilitation. Our study shows that: 1) facilitation enhances the detection of correlated signals arriving from a subset of presynaptic excitatory neurons, with different degrees of correlation among this subset, and 2) the presence of facilitation allows for a better detection of firing rate changes. Finally, we also observed that facilitation determines the existence of an optimal input frequency which allows the best performance for a wide (maximum) range of the neuron firing threshold. This optimal frequency can be controlled by means of facilitation parameters.19 pages, 8 figuresNeurons and Cognitiontext