Response variability and timing precision of neuronal spike trains in vivo

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 2836-2841

  Reich, Daniel S ^a,b   Victor, Jonathan D ^a,b   Knight, Bruce W ^a   Ozaki, Tsuyoshi ^a   Kaplan, Ehud ^a,c  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; LATERAL GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME;

EID: 0030939358     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.1997.77.5.2836     Document Type: Article

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