Inhibition and recurrent excitation in a computational model of sparse bursting in song nucleus HVC

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1748-1762

  Gibb, Leif ^a,c   Gentner, Timothy Q ^a   Abarbanel, Henry D I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INTERNEURON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; VOCALIZATION; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HIGH VOCAL CENTER; INTERNEURONS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; SONGBIRDS; SYNAPSES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 70349266024     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00670.2007     Document Type: Article

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