Response properties of an integrate-and-fire model that receives subthreshold inputs

Neural Computation

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2571-2601

  Zhang, Xuedong ^a   Carney, Laurel H ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Syracuse Institute for Sensory Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COCHLEAR NUCLEUS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEURONS;

GRAPHIC METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ARBITRARY INPUTS; COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE MODEL; INTER SPIKE INTERVALS; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MODELING PARAMETERS; NONSTATIONARY; POST-STIMULUS TIME HISTOGRAMS; RESPONSE PROPERTIES; SUBTHRESHOLD;

SYNCHRONIZATION;

EID: 27144490008     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976605774320584     Document Type: Article

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