A quantitative population model of whisker barrels: Re-examining the Wilson-Cowan equations

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 247-264

  Pinto, David J ^a   Brumberg, Joshua C ^b   Simons, Daniel J ^b   Ermentrout, G Bard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Cortical circuits; Local networks; Somatosensory cortex; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

CORTICAL CIRCUIT; INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE MODEL; LOCAL NETWORKS; POPULATION MODEL; QUANTITATIVE COMPARISON; RAT WHISKERS; SIMPLE++; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA; WILSON-COWAN EQUATIONS;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VIBRISSA;

EID: 0029747260     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00161134     Document Type: Article

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