Input clustering and the microscale structure of local circuits

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages

  DeBello, William M ^a   McBride, Thomas J ^a,b   Nichols, Grant S ^a   Pannoni, Katy E ^a   Sanculi, Daniel ^a   Totten, Douglas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PLOS Medicine ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered plasticity; Connectome; Dendritic integration; Synapse clustering; Synaptic clustering

Indexed keywords

BRAIN REGION; CONNECTOME; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN CORTEX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS;

EID: 84907209351     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2014.00112     Document Type: Review

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