Activation of Parallel Fiber Feedback by Spatially Diffuse Stimuli Reduces Signal and Noise Correlations via Independent Mechanisms in a Cerebellum-Like Structure

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Simmonds, Benjamin ^a   Chacron, Maurice J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC LINES; GRANULATION;

% REDUCTIONS; CELL PAIRS; GRANULE CELLS; INTERNAL STATE; LOCALISED; NOISE CORRELATION; PARALLEL FIBERS; PYRAMIDAL CELL; SIGNAL CORRELATION; WEAKLY ELECTRIC FISH;

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GRANULE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROANATOMY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; ELECTRIC FISH; NERVE FIBER; PHYSIOLOGY;

GYMNOTIFORMES;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBELLUM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ELECTRIC FISH; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE FIBERS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 84922239852     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004034     Document Type: Article

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