After-hyperpolarization currents and acetylcholine control sigmoid transfer functions in a spiking cortical model

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 253-280

  Palma, Jesse ^a   Versace, Massimiliano ^a   Grossberg, Stephen ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine modulation; Adaptive Resonance Theory; After hyperpolarization current; Calcium activated potassium channel; Recurrent network; Sigmoid signal; Spiking model; Vigilance

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN; CALCIUM; POTASSIUM;

'CURRENT; ACETYLCHOLINE MODULATION; ADAPTIVE RESONANCE THEORY; AFTER-HYPERPOLARIZATION CURRENT; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM; CALCIUM-ACTIVATED POTASSIUM CHANNEL; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RECURRENT NETWORKS; SIGMOID SIGNAL; SIGMOIDS; SPIKING MODEL; VIGILANCE;

MODULATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; CARBACHOL; MUSCARINE;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL FUNCTION; CHOLINERGIC STIMULATION; FOREBRAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEYNERT BASAL NUCLEUS; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGMOID SIGNAL FUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIKE;

EID: 84863877952     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: 15736873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-011-0354-8     Document Type: Article

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