Physiological Gain Leads to High ISI Variability in a Simple Model of a Cortical Regular Spiking Cell

Neural Computation

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 971-983

  Troyer, Todd W ^a   Miller, Kenneth D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SYNAPSE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SYNAPSES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0031182938     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.1997.9.5.971     Document Type: Article

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