Analysis of development of direction selectivity in retinotectum by a neural circuit model with spike timing-dependent plasticity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1516-1527

  Honda, Minoru ^a   Urakubo, Hidetoshi ^a   Tanaka, Keiko ^a,b   Kuroda, Shinya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INTERNEURON; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE; SYNAPSE; XENOPUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; INTERNEURONS; LARVA; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SUPERIOR COLLICULI; SYNAPSES; XENOPUS;

EID: 79251573527     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3811-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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