Dynamics of Membrane Excitability Determine Interspike Interval Variability: A Link between Spike Generation Mechanisms and Cortical Spike Train Statistics

Neural Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1047-1065

  Gutkin, Boris S ^a   Ermentrout, G Bard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; CELL MEMBRANE; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0032111678     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976698300017331     Document Type: Article

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