Context-dependent coding in single neurons

Journal of Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 459-480

  Mease, Rebecca A ^a,b   Lee, Sang Wook ^a   Moritz, Anna T ^a   Powers, Randall K ^a   Binder, Marc D ^a   Fairhall, Adrienne L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

After hyperpolarization; Covariance modes; Motoneurons; Neural filters; SK channels; Spike triggered Reverse correlation

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

'CURRENT; AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; COVARIANCE MODE; DIRECT-CURRENT; MOTONEURON; NEURAL FILTERS; REVERSE CORRELATIONS; SINGLE NEURON; SK CHANNEL; SPIKE-TRIGGERED REVERSE CORRELATION;

NEURONS;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECT CURRENT; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MOTONEURON; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPIKE WAVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; IN VITRO STUDY; NERVE CELL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; FEMALE; IN VITRO TECHNIQUES; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84912030711     PISSN: 09295313     EISSN: 15736873     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10827-014-0513-9     Document Type: Article

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