Evaluation of the oscillatory interference model of grid cell firing through analysis and measured period variance of some biological oscillators

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Zilli, Eric A ^a   Yoshida, Motoharu ^a   Tahvildari, Babak ^b,c   Giocomo, Lisa M ^a,d   Hasselmo, Michael E ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Centre for the Biology of Memory   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

ACTIVITY PATTERNS; BIOLOGICAL OSCILLATORS; BREAKDOWN POINTS; CONTINUOUS ATTRACTOR; EFFECT OF NOISE; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; FIRING PROPERTIES; GRID CELLS; INTERFERENCE MODELLING; SPATIAL ACTIVITY;

CYTOLOGY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; BRAIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTORHINAL CORTEX; GRID CELL; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; STELLATE CELL; SUBICULUM; ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL RHYTHM; BRAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; METABOLISM; OSCILLOMETRY; PATCH CLAMP; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BRAIN; CELL MEMBRANE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEURONS; OSCILLOMETRY; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 73449101836     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000573     Document Type: Article

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