Encoding of information into neural spike trains in an auditory nerve fiber model with electric stimuli in the presence of a pseudospontaneous activity

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 360-369

  Mino, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a KANTO GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Action Potential; Computer simulation; Electric stimulation; Fluctuations; Information theoretic analysis; Neural encoding; Neural prosthesis; Neural spike trains; Stochastic Ion channels

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; IMAGE CODING; NEUROLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

AUDITORY NERVE FIBER (ANF) MODEL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; NEURAL ENCODING; NEURAL PROSTHESIS; NEURAL SPIKE TRAINS; POST-STIMULUS TIME HISTOGRAM (PSTH); STANDARD DEVIATION (SD); STOCHASTIC ION CHANNELS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

POTASSIUM CHANNEL; SODIUM CHANNEL;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENTROPY; HISTOGRAM; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANVIER NODE; SPIKE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NERVE FIBERS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 33847747069     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.890486     Document Type: Article

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