Neuronal jitter: Can we measure the spike timing dispersion differently?

Chinese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 454-464

  Kostal, Lubomir ^a   Marsalek, Petr ^a,b,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entropy; Perfect integrator neuronal model; Spike timing jitter; Standard deviation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY BASED DISPERSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955378964     PISSN: 03044920     EISSN: 26660059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4077/CJP.2010.AMM031     Document Type: Article

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