A realistic neural-network simulation of both slow and quick phase components of the guinea pig VOR

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 149, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 299-311

  Cartwright, Andrew D ^a   Gilchrist, Darrin P D ^a   Burgess, Ann M ^a   Curthoys, Ian S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

GENESIS; Medial vestibular nucleus; Neural network; Unilateral vestibular deafferentation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DEAFFERENTATION; GUINEA PIG; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS; VESTIBULAR NYSTAGMUS; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

EID: 0037385549     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-002-1361-9     Document Type: Article

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