Conditions for propagating synchronous spiking and asynchronous firing rates in a cortical network model

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 5268-5280

  Kumar, Arvind ^a,b   Rotter, Stefan ^a   Aertsen, Ad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Feedforward network; Locally connected random network; Recurrent network dynamics; Signal propagation; Synaptic conductance; Synchrony; Synfire chain

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; MICE; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 45549109207     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2542-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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