Mathematical models of cochlear nucleus onset neurons: I. Point neuron with many weak synaptic inputs

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-90

  Kalluri, Sridhar ^a,b   Delgutte, Bertrand ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear nucleus; Coincidence detection; Integrate and fire model

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

AUDITORY NERVES; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; COINCIDENCE DETECTION; FREQUENCY TONES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE MODEL; RESPONSE PATTERNS; SYNAPTIC INPUT; TIME-CONSTANTS; TONE BURSTS;

NEURONS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SOUND; STEADY STATE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME; VEIN TONE;

EID: 0037239003     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021128418615     Document Type: Article

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