The oscillation score: An efficient method for estimating oscillation strength in neuronal activity

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1333-1353

  Mureşan, Raul C ^a,b,c   Jurjuţ, Ovidiu F ^a,b,c   Moca, Vasile V ^a,b,c   Singer, Wolf ^a,b   Nikolić, Danko ^a,b  

^a FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies Coneural   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BETA RHYTHM; CAT; CELL LEVEL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; GAMMA RHYTHM; HISTOGRAM; NERVE CELL; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPIKE; THETA RHYTHM; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; CATS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 40949121414     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00772.2007     Document Type: Article

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