Regulation of spike timing in visual cortical circuits

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 97-107

  Tiesinga, Paul ^a   Fellous, Jean Marc ^b   Sejnowski, Terrence J ^c,d  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; HUMANS; NEURONS; REACTION TIME; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38349183038     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2315     Document Type: Review

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