Cultures of dissociated neurons display a variety of avalanche behaviours

ESANN 2006 Proceedings - European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 515-520

  Alessio, R ^a   Cozzi, L ^a   D'Angelo, P ^a   Sanguineti, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); NEURAL NETWORKS; RATS;

ANATOMIC STRUCTURES; AVALANCHE BEHAVIOR; AVALANCHE DYNAMICS; CRITICAL STATE; DISSOCIATED CULTURE; ORGANOTYPIC CULTURE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNAPTIC CONNECTIVITY;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84930647306     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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