Synaptic depression increases the selectivity of a neuron to its preferred pattern and binarizes the neural code

BioSystems

Volumn 67, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 17-25

  Bugmann, Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hamming distance; Neuron model; Neuronal coding; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SIMULATION; SPIKE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TARGET CELL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0036813594     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0303-2647(02)00059-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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