Trial-to-trial variability and its effect on time-varying dependency between two neurons

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2928-2939

  Ventura, Valérie ^a   Cai, Can ^a   Kass, Robert E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 24944547377     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00644.2004     Document Type: Article

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