Neuronal Integration of Synaptic Input in the Fluctuation-Driven Regime

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2345-2356

  Kuhn, Alexandre ^a   Aertsen, Ad ^a   Rotter, Stefan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b Theory and Data Analysis   (Germany)

Author keywords

Integrate and fire; Intracellular recording; Membrane conductance; Neural coding; Primary visual cortex; Synaptic integration

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; MEMBRANE CONDUCTANCE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MODEL; NERVE CELL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 1542327624     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3349-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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