Maximizing Sensory Dynamic Range by Tuning the Cortical State to Criticality

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Gautam, Shree Hari ^a   Hoang, Thanh T ^a   McClanahan, Kylie ^a   Grady, Stephen K ^a   Shew, Woodrow L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; CRITICALITY (NUCLEAR FISSION); MICROELECTRODES;

ACTIVITY-DEPENDENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DYNAMIC RANGE; EXPERIMENT MODELING; MICROELECTRODES ARRAYS; POPULATION ACTIVITIES; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; SOMATOSENSORY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROELECTRODE ARRAY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY DYNAMIC RANGE; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TOUCH;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TOUCH;

EID: 84953223807     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004576     Document Type: Article

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