Neural populations can induce reliable postsynaptic currents without observable spike rate changes or precise spike timing

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1830-1840

  Tripp, Bryan ^a   Eliasmith, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Irregular firing; Modeling; Pattern generators; Poisson firing; Temporal code; Theoretical neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELL POPULATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 34547653865     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhl092     Document Type: Article

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