Computational subunits in thin dendrites of pyramidal cells

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 621-627

  Polsky, Alon ^a   Mel, Bartlett W ^b   Schiller, Jackie ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; NEOCORTEX; NERVE NET; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 2542476020     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1253     Document Type: Article

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