Spiking activity propagation in neuronal networks: Reconciling different perspectives on neural coding

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 615-627

  Kumar, Arvind ^a   Rotter, Stefan ^a   Aertsen, Ad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; COMPUTER MODEL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SYNAPSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS;

EID: 77955979385     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn2886     Document Type: Review

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