Measuring Information-Transfer Delays

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Wibral, Michael ^a   Pampu, Nicolae ^b   Priesemann, Viola ^c   Siebenhühner, Felix ^a,d   Seiwert, Hannes ^a   Lindner, Michael ^e   Lizier, Joseph T ^f,g   Vicente, Raul ^a,c,h  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies Coneural   (Romania)

^c FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^g CSIRO   (Australia)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ENTROPY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROSCIENCE; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS; RETINA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TURTLES;

EID: 84874522295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0055809     Document Type: Article

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