The Influence of Synaptic Weight Distribution on Neuronal Population Dynamics

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Iyer, Ramakrishnan ^a   Menon, Vilas ^a   Buice, Michael ^a   Koch, Christof ^a   Mihalas, Stefan ^a  

^a ALLEN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOKKER PLANCK EQUATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

'CURRENT; AMPLITUDE DISTRIBUTIONS; CORTICAL NEURONS; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; LEAKY INTEGRATE AND FIRE NEURON; MASTER EQUATIONS; NEURONAL POPULATIONS; SYNAPTIC DEPRESSION; SYNAPTIC WEIGHT; WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS;

SHOT NOISE;

ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; SYNAPTIC WEIGHT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84887290826     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003248     Document Type: Article

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