Noise in integrate-and-fire neurons: From stochastic input to escape rates

Neural Computation

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 367-384

  Plesser, Hans E ^a   Gerstner, Wulfram ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0034133323     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976600300015835     Document Type: Article

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