On the transmission of rate code in long feedforward networks with excitatory-inhibitory balance

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 3006-3015

  Litvak, Vladimir ^a,c   Sompolinsky, Haim ^a   Segev, Idan ^a   Abeles, Moshe ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bistability; Correlation; Excitation inhibition balance; Information transmission; Network models; Rate code; Synaptic integration; Synchrony; Synfire chain; Temporal code

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CHRONOSEQUENCE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION;

EID: 0037387041     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-07-03006.2003     Document Type: Article

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