Sensitivity to perturbations in vivo implies high noise and suggests rate coding in cortex

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7302, 2010, Pages 123-127

  London, Michael ^a   Roth, Arnd ^a   Beeren, Lisa ^a   Häusser, Michael ^a   Latham, Peter E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; NEUROLOGY; NOISE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECORDING; STIMULUS; THEORETICAL STUDY; THEORY; WHOLE CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

RATTUS;

EID: 77954231844     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09086     Document Type: Article

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