A general and efficient method for incorporating precise spike times in globally time-driven simulations

Frontiers in Neuroinformatics

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2010, Pages

  Hanuschkin, Alexander ^a   Kunkel, Susanne ^a   Helias, Moritz ^b   Morrison, Abigail ^a,b   Diesmann, Markus ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Accuracy; Event driven; Non linear neuron models; Precise spike times; Time driven

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958294115     PISSN: 16625196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fninf.2010.00113     Document Type: Article

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