Concentration Tuning Mediated by Spare Receptor Capacity in Olfactory Sensory Neurons: A Theoretical Study

Neural Computation

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1673-1690

  Cleland, Thomas A ^a   Linster, Christiane ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMORECEPTOR; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; CHEMORECEPTORS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR NEURONS;

EID: 0033208607     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976699300016188     Document Type: Article

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