Balanced inhibition underlies tuning and sharpens spike timing in auditory cortex

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6965, 2003, Pages 442-446

  Wehr, Michael ^a   Zador, Anthony M ^a  

^a Simons Center for Quantitative Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ACOUSTIC WAVES; FREQUENCIES; QUENCHING;

AUDITORY CORTEX; SYNAPTIC MECHANISMS;

NEUROLOGY;

ACOUSTICS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY;

ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC NERVE FIBER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; HEARING; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOUND; SPIKE WAVE; TUNING CURVE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0344120308     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02116     Document Type: Article

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