Tuning neocortical pyramidal neurons between integrators and coincidence detectors

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-251

  Rudolph, Michael ^a   Destexhe, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Computational model; Operating mode; Synaptic background

Indexed keywords

NEURONS;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; COINCIDENCE DETECTION; COINCIDENCE DETECTORS; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; CORTICAL NEURONS; IN-VIVO; OPERATING MODES; PYRAMIDAL NEURON; SYNAPTIC BACKGROUND; TEMPORAL INTEGRATION;

INTEGRATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CAT; CELL ACTIVITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPARTMENT MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL SUMMATION;

EID: 0037570830     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023245625896     Document Type: Article

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