Beyond the cortical column: Abundance and physiology of horizontal connections imply a strong role for inputs from the surround

Frontiers in Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APR, 2011, Pages

  Boucsein, Clemens ^a   Nawrot, Martin P ^b   Schnepel, Philipp ^a   Aertsen, Ad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cortical column; Dendritic integration; Reliability; Synaptic transmission; Temporal coding

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; DENDRITIC CELL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INTRACELLULAR RECORDING; NEOCORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SPIKE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84855432814     PISSN: 16624548     EISSN: 1662453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2011.00032     Document Type: Review

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