Neural noise can explain expansive, power-law nonlinearities in neural response functions

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 653-659

  Miller, Kenneth D ^a   Troyer, Todd W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPIKE WAVE; VISUAL CORTEX; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 0036089723     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00425.2001     Document Type: Article

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