Target and temporal pattern selection at neocortical synapses

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1428, 2002, Pages 1781-1791

  Thomson, Alex M ^a   Peter Bannister, A ^a   Mercer, Audrey ^a   Morris, Oliver T ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cortical information processing; EPSP; Intemeuron; Interlaminar connections; Paired pulse depression; Thalamus

Indexed keywords

NEUROLOGY;

ANIMALIA; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0037196088     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2002.1163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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