Beyond Poisson: Increased Spike-Time Regularity across Primate Parietal Cortex

Neuron

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 426-440

  Maimon, Gaby ^a,b   Assad, John A ^b  

^a California Institute of Technology HHMI   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSBIO

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; NEURON SPIKE TRAIN; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE TIME STATISTICS; SPIKE WAVE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONS; PARIETAL LOBE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 65549099674     PISSN: 08966273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.03.021     Document Type: Article

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