How precise is the timing of action potentials?

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue MAY, 2009, Pages 2-3

  Kirst, Christoph ^a,b   Timme, Marc ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

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EID: 77955329949     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.01.009.2009     Document Type: Note

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