To burst or not to burst?

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-136

  Chacron, Maurice J ^a   Longtin, André ^a   Maler, Leonard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Burst; Electroreceptor; Feature detection; Information theory; Neuron

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DECODING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); EXTRACTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

ACTION-POTENTIALS; BURST; COMPUTATIONAL ADVANTAGES; ELECTRORECEPTORS; ENCODING TIME; FEATURES DETECTIONS; FEATURES EXTRACTION; SENSORY PROCESSING; TIME VARYING SIGNAL; WEAKLY ELECTRIC FISH;

NEURONS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRORECEPTOR; INFORMATION SCIENCE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY STIMULATION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 4344613566     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JCNS.0000037677.58916.6b     Document Type: Article

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