Signals in stochastically generated neurons

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-26

  Winslow, James L ^a   Jou, Stephan F ^a   Wang, Sabrina ^b   Wojtowicz, J Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dendrites; Hippocampus; Membrane resistivity; Stochastic neurons; Synapse location

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BRANCH POINTS; DENDRITE; DENDRITICS; FIBER DIAMETERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMBRANE RESISTIVITY; NEURAL MODELLING; SHAPE AND SIZE; STOCHASTIC NEURONS; SYNAPSE LOCATION;

NEURONS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL SHAPE; DENDRITE; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYNAPSE;

EID: 0032993142     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008893415203     Document Type: Article

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