A few strong connections: Optimizing information retention in neuronal avalanches

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Chen, Wei ^a   Hobbs, Jon P ^a   Tang, Aonan ^a   Beggs, John M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN SLICE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; LEARNING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RAT; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NERVE TRACT; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; INFORMATION THEORY; MICROELECTRODES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77349093830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-11-3     Document Type: Article

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