Attentional modulation of firing rate and synchrony in a model cortical network

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 247-264

  Buia, Calin ^a   Tiesinga, Paul ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Delay modulation; Synchronization; Synchrony modulation

Indexed keywords

LOCKS (FASTENERS); NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS;

ATTENTION; CORTICAL NETWORK; DELAY MODULATION; DRIVING CURRENT; EXCITATORY NEURONS; FIRING RATES; LOW CONTRAST; RECEPTIVE FIELDS; RESPONSE CURVES; SYNCHRONY MODULATION;

MODULATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ATTENTION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; HODGKIN HUXLEY EQUATION; INTERNEURON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 33646421666     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-006-6358-0     Document Type: Article

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