Quantifying neurotransmission reliability through metrics-based information analysis

Neural Computation

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 852-881

  Brasselet, Romain ^a   Johansson, Roland S ^b   Arleo, Angelo ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MECHANORECEPTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 79952303639     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/NECO_a_00099     Document Type: Letter

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