Computing by physical interaction in neurons

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 413-422

  Aur, Dorian ^a,d   Jog, Mandar ^b   Poznanski, Roman R ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

electric field; intraneuronal computation; neural code; Physical theory; spike stereotypy; subcellular signaling; Turing machines

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; ELECTRIC FIELD; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; SPIKE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 84856343456     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: 1757448X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219635211002865     Document Type: Article

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