The operating point of the cortex: Neurons as large deviation detectors

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 29, 2007, Pages 7673-7683

  Ringach, Dario L ^a   Malone, Brian J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Feature detector; Generator potential; Large deviation; Nonlinearity; Sparseness; Spike threshold; Tuning selectivity

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPIKE WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 34447626991     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1048-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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