Mean-driven and fluctuation-driven persistent activity in recurrent networks

Neural Computation

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-46

  Renart, Alfonso ^a,b,c   Moreno Bote, Rubén ^a   Wang, Xiao Jing ^b   Parga, Néstor ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SENSORY NERVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MEMORY; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33845992188     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2007.19.1.1     Document Type: Article

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