Correlated neuronal activity and the flow of neural information

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 539-550

  Salinas, Emilio ^a,b   Sejnowski, Terrence J ^a,c  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS;

EID: 0035432365     PISSN: 14710048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35086012     Document Type: Review

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