Stochastic encoding in sensory neurons: Impulse patterns of mammalian cold receptors

Chaos, solitons and fractals

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1895-1903

  Huber, M T ^a   Krieg, J C ^a   Dewald, M ^a   Voigt, K ^a   Braun, H A ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSCILLATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; THERMAL EFFECTS;

MAMMALIAN COLD RECEPTORS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

EID: 0033743584     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(99)00126-5     Document Type: Article

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