Wide-band information transmission at the calyx of held

Neural Computation

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 991-1017

  Yang, Zhijun ^a   Hennig, Matthias H ^b   Postlethwaite, Michael ^c   Forsythe, Ian D ^c   Graham, Bruce P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PONS; STATISTICS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PATHWAYS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GLUTAMIC ACID; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 65549104695     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/neco.2008.02-08-714     Document Type: Letter

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