Routing the flow of sensory signals using plastic responses to bursts and isolated spikes: Experiment and theory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2461-2473

  Middleton, Jason W ^a   Yu, Na ^b   Longtin, André ^b   Maler, Leonard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTROSTIMULATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSATION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE; THEORY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICAL PROCESSES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC FISH; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951832280     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4672-10.2011     Document Type: Article

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