Identification and continuity of the distributions of burst-length and interspike intervals in the stochastic Morris-Lecar neuron

Neural Computation

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3094-3124

  Rowat, Peter F ^a   Greenwood, Priscilla E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; LETTER; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84856394042     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: 1530888X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/NECO_a_00209     Document Type: Letter

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