Power-law neuronal fluctuations in a recurrent network model of parametric working memory

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1099-1114

  Miller, Paul ^a   Wang, Xiao Jing ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; POWER SPECTRUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORKING MEMORY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MACACA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDBACK; MACACA; MEMORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33644851076     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00491.2005     Document Type: Article

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