Lateral Sharpening of Cortical Frequency Tuning by Approximately Balanced Inhibition

Neuron

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 132-143

  Wu, Guangying K ^a   Arbuckle, Robert ^a   Liu, Bao hua ^a   Tao, Huizhong W ^a   Zhang, Li I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

SIGNALING; SYSBIO; SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; FEMALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 41549109253     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2008.01.035     Document Type: Article

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