Local cortical circuit model inferred from power-law distributed neuronal avalanches

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 301-312

  Teramae, Jun Nosuke ^a   Fukai, Tomoki ^a  

^a RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell assembly; Cortical network development; Neuronal wiring; Synchronization; Synfire chain

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CHAINS; CYTOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY;

CELL ASSEMBLY; CIRCUIT MODELING; CORTICAL NETWORK; CORTICAL NETWORK DEVELOPMENT; CORTICAL NEURONS; NETWORK'S DEVELOPMENT; NEURONAL AVALANCHES; NEURONAL WIRING; POWER-LAW; SYNFIRE CHAINS;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN CELL; NERVE PROJECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL;

EID: 34249894467     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-006-0014-6     Document Type: Article

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