The combined effects of inhibitory and electrical synapses in synchrony

Neural Computation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 633-670

  Pfeuty, Benjamin ^a   Mato, German ^b   Golomb, David ^c   Hansel, David ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b INSTITUTO BALSEIRO   (Argentina)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL JUNCTION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GAP JUNCTIONS; INTERNEURONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 13844299470     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0899766053019917     Document Type: Article

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