A biologically plausible model of time-scale invariant interval timing

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 155-175

  Almeida, Rita ^a   Ledberg, Anders ^b  

^a INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bistability; Linear death process; Mathematical model; Noise driven transitions; Scale invariant timing

Indexed keywords

DISPLAY DEVICES; TIME MEASUREMENT; TIMING CIRCUITS;

BI-STABILITY; DEATH PROCESS; INVARIANT INTERVALS; LINEAR DEATH PROCESS; MODELS OF TIME; NOISE-DRIVEN TRANSITION; PLAUSIBLE MODEL; SCALE-INVARIANT; SCALE-INVARIANT TIMING; TIME-SCALES;

TIMING DEVICES;

ARTICLE; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NERVE CONDUCTION; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCALE INVARIANT INTERVAL TIMING; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TIME;

EID: 77549083419     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-009-0197-8     Document Type: Article

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