Refractoriness and neural precision

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2200-2211

  Berry II, Michael J ^a   Meister, Markus ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neural coding; Poisson process; Refractory period; Reproducibility; Retinal ganglion cell; Spike generator

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SALAMANDER; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 0032521364     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-06-02200.1998     Document Type: Article

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