Dynamical synapses give rise to a power-law distribution of neuronal avalanches

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 771-778

  Levina, Anna ^c,d   Herrmann, J Michael ^a,b   Geisel, Theo ^a,b,d  

^a BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Graduate School Identification in Mathematical Models   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE DISTRIBUTIONS; CORTICAL NEURONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; POWER-LAW;

EID: 84864052985     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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