Consequences of correlated synaptic bombardment on the responsiveness of neocortical pyramidal neurons

Neurocomputing

Volumn 32-33, Issue , 2000, Pages 155-160

  Hô, Nicolas ^a   Kröger, Helmut ^a   Destexhe, Alain ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Firing probability; Stochastic computational models; Synaptic background activity

Indexed keywords

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; CELL MEMBRANES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; FIRING PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC COMPUTATIONAL MODELS; SYNAPTIC BACKGROUND ACTIVITY;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; NEOCORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

EID: 0343628800     PISSN: 09252312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(00)00157-0     Document Type: Article

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