Towards blueprints for network architecture, biophysical dynamics and signal transduction

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1849, 2006, Pages 3301-3318

  Coombes, Stephen ^a   Doiron, Brent ^b   Josić, Krešimir ^c   Shea Brown, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Houston   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological neural networks; Coupled oscillators; Information theory; Neural signal processing; Stochastic neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845638718     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1903     Document Type: Article

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