Inhibitory "noise"

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2010, Pages

  Destexhe, Alain ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Cerebral cortex; Computational models; Conductance; Dynamic clamp; Spike triggered average

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868370791     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2010.00009     Document Type: Article

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