Burst-time-dependent plasticity robustly guides ON/OFF segregation in the lateral geniculate nucleus

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2009, Pages

  Gjorgjieva, Julijana ^a   Toyoizumi, Taro ^b   Eglen, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY;

FIRING PROPERTIES; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; LINEAR MODELING; NORMALISATION; PRESYNAPTIC; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SYNAPTIC CONNECTIVITY; SYNAPTIC WEIGHT; TIME DEPENDENT; TIME-SCALES;

CELLS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; LATERAL GENICULATE NUCLEUS; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRESYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SPIKE WAVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENICULATE BODY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

MUSTELA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENICULATE BODIES; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 74549206712     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000618     Document Type: Article

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