Sequential stimulation of rat cerebellar granular layer in vivo: Further evidence of a 'tidal-wave' timing mechanism in the cerebellum

Neurocomputing

Volumn 38-40, Issue , 2001, Pages 641-646

  Heck, Detlef ^a   Sultan, Fahad ^b   Braitenberg, Valentino ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebellar cortex; Parallel fibers; Spatio temporal activity patterns; Tidal wave theory

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRODES; FIBERS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CEREBELLAR CORTEX;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; GEOMETRY; GRANULAR CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MOSSY FIBER; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0035384017     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00421-0     Document Type: Article

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