Short-term synaptic depression causes a non-monotonic response to correlated stimuli

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 37, 2005, Pages 8416-8431

  De La Rocha, Jaime ^a,b   Parga, Nestor ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluctuation driven regimen; Neural coding; Presynaptic spike correlations; Synaptic integration; Synaptic short term depression; Vesicle depletion

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; DEPRESSION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 24944496222     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0631-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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