Dynamical mechanism for sharp orientation tuning in an integrate-and-fire model of a cortical hypercolumn

Neural Computation

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 2473-2511

  Bressloff, P C ^a   Bressloff, N W ^b   Cowan, J D ^c  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0034324627     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976600300014809     Document Type: Article

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