Role of Temporal Integration and Fluctuation Detection in the Highly Irregular Firing of a Leaky Integrator Neuron Model with Partial Reset

Neural Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 985-1000

  Bugmann, Guido ^a   Christodoulou, Chris ^b   Taylor, John G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

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EID: 0001559694     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1997.9.5.985     Document Type: Article

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