Subthreshold membrane currents confer distinct tuning properties that enable neurons to encode the integral or derivative of their input

Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JAN, 2015, Pages 1-15

  Ratté, Stéphanie ^a,b,c   Lankarany, Milad ^a,b   Rho, Young Ah ^c   Patterson, Adam ^a   Prescott, Steven A ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action potential; Coincidence detector; Differentiator; Integrator; Neural coding; Spike

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSORY SYSTEM PARAMETERS; SPIKE WAVE; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SUBTHRESHOLD MEMBRANE CURRENT;

EID: 84920996213     PISSN: 16625102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2014.00452     Document Type: Article

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