Equilibrium and response properties of the integrate-and-fire neuron in discrete time

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue JAN, 2010, Pages

  Helias, Moritz ^a   Deger, Moritz ^a   Diesmann, Markus ^a,b,c   Rotter, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c Brain and Neural Systems Team   (Japan)

Author keywords

Discrete time; Equilibrium properties; Finite synaptic weights; Immediate firing rate response; Leaky integrate and fire neuron; Membrane potential distribution; Non linear response; Perturbation theory

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE TIME; EQUILIBRIUM PROPERTIES; FIRING RATES; INTEGRATE-AND-FIRE NEURONS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; PERTURBATION THEORY; SYNAPTIC WEIGHT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRES; MARKOV PROCESSES; POPULATION STATISTICS;

NEURONS;

EID: 78049438383     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.10.029.2009     Document Type: Article

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