Neuronal coding and spiking randomness

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2693-2701

  Kostal, Lubomir ^a   Lansky, Petr ^a   Rospars, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

Author keywords

Entropy; Randomness; Spike train; Variability

Indexed keywords

BRAIN SPIKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SIMULATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 36148936390     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2007.05880.x     Document Type: Review

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