A paradoxical isopotentiality: A spatially uniform noise spectrum in neocortical pyramidal cells

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2008, Pages

  Yaron Jakoubovitch, Anat ^a   Jacobson, Gilad A ^a   Koch, Christof ^b,c   Segev, Idan ^a   Yarom, Yosef ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c California Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrite; Impedance; Noise; Power spectrum

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651273702     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.03.003.2008     Document Type: Article

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