Model cerebellar granule cells can faithfully transmit modulated firing rate signals

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Rössert, Christian ^a   Solinas, Sergio ^b   D’Angelo, Egidio ^b,c   Dean, Paul ^a   Porrill, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b C MONDINO NATIONAL NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Modulation; Mossy fiber; Signal reconstruction; Transfer function; Variance accounted for; Wiener filter

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL GRANULE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CEREBELLUM CELL; CEREBELLUM FLOCCULUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; MOSSY FIBER; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPIKE WAVE; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPSE; VESTIBULAR SYSTEM; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

EID: 84908004207     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00304     Document Type: Article

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