A Dendritic Mechanism for Decoding Traveling Waves: Principles and Applications to Motor Cortex

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Heitmann, Stewart ^a,b   Boonstra, Tjeerd ^a,b,c   Breakspear, Michael ^a,b,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b BLACK DOG INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; DECODING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); TOPOLOGY;

CORTICAL REGIONS; DENDRITICS; MOTOR COMMANDS; MOTOR SYSTEMS; MOTOR-CORTEX; NEURONAL OSCILLATIONS; SENSORY CORTICES; TRAVELLING WAVES; WAVE PATTERNS;

NEURONS;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; OSCILLATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY CORTEX;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENDRITES; HUMANS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS;

EID: 84887276593     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003260     Document Type: Article

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