Tradeoffs and constraints on neural representation in networks of cortical neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 9588-9596

  Kermany, Einat ^a   Gal, Asaf ^a,b   Lyakhov, Vladimir ^a   Meir, Ron ^a   Marom, Shimon ^a   Eytan, Danny ^a,c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c MEYER CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTRODE; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBRAL CORTEX; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 77954718351     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0661-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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