The effects of spontaneous activity, background noise, and the stimulus ensemble on information transfer in neurons

Network: Computation in Neural Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 803-824

  Chacron, Maurice J ^a   Longtin, André ^a   Maler, Leonard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INFORMATION TRANSFER; MEASUREMENT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SAMPLE; SENSORY STIMULATION;

EID: 0347625929     PISSN: 0954898X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-898X_14_4_010     Document Type: Article

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