Invariant computations in local cortical networks with balanced excitation and inhibition

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 194-201

  Mariño, Jorge ^a,c   Schummers, James ^a   Lyon, David C ^a,d   Schwabe, Lars ^b   Beck, Oliver ^b   Wiesing, Peter ^b   Obermayer, Klaus ^b   Sur, Mriganka ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAT; COVARIANCE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; ORIENTING RESPONSE; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CATS; CELL COUNT; CHOLERA TOXIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 13244257104     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1391     Document Type: Article

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