Ion Channel Stochasticity May Be Critical in Determining the Reliability and Precision of Spike Timing

Neural Computation

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1679-1703

  Schneidman, Elad ^a   Freedman, Barry ^a   Segev, Idan ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ION CHANNEL;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION STUDIES; ION CHANNELS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; REACTION TIME; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0032185423     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976698300017089     Document Type: Article

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