High-Degree Neurons Feed Cortical Computations

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Timme, Nicholas M ^a   Ito, Shinya ^b   Myroshnychenko, Maxym ^a   Nigam, Sunny ^a   Shimono, Masanori ^c   Yeh, Fang Chin ^d   Hottowy, Pawel ^e   Litke, Alan M ^b   Beggs, John M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^e AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CORTICAL NEURONS; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY; HIPPOCAMPAL SLICE; IN-DEGREE; SLICE CULTURES; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

NEURONS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PARTIAL INFORMATION DECOMPOSITION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; SLICE CULTURE; SPIKE; TRANSFER ENTROPY; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; INFORMATION THEORY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE NET; NEURONS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84975883431     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004858     Document Type: Article

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