Subthreshold outward currents enhance temporal integration in auditory neurons

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 333-340

  Svirskis, Gytis ^a,b   Dodla, Ramana ^a   Rinzel, John ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

INTERAURAL TIME DIFFERENCE TUNING CURVES; MEDIAL SUPERIOR OLIVARY NEURONS; REVERSE CORRELATION METHOD; SOUND LOCALIZATION;

AUDITION;

GERBILLINAE;

POTASSIUM CHANNEL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GERBIL; HEARING; NERVE CELL; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PATCH CLAMP; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GERBILLINAE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; OLIVARY NUCLEUS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; POTASSIUM CHANNELS;

EID: 0348197962     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00422-003-0438-2     Document Type: Article

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