Early-stage waves in the retinal network emerge close to a critical state transition between local and global functional connectivity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1077-1086

  Hennig, Matthias H ^a   Adams, Christopher ^b   Willshaw, David ^a   Sernagor, Evelyne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational model; Correlated activity; Percolation; Phase transition; Retinal development; Retinal waves

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA DEVELOPMENT; RETINA WAVE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; RETINA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 59649122393     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4880-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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