How the threshold of a neuron determines its capacity for coincidence detection

BioSystems

Volumn 48, Issue 1-3, 1998, Pages 105-112

  Kempter, Richard ^a   Gerstner, Wulfram ^b   Van Hemmen, J Leo ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coherent activity; Coincidence detection; Integrate and fire neuron; Rate coding; Temporal coding; Voltage threshold

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE MEMBRANE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE;

EID: 0032211459     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(98)00055-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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