Analysis of information transmission in the Schaffer collaterals

Hippocampus

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 582-598

  Schultz, Simon R ^a,b   Rolls, Edmund T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

CA1; Hippocampus; Information theory; Neural network; Spatial correlations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY;

ANIMALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0032710865     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1063(1999)9:5<582::AID-HIPO12>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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