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oscillations

Ron Blue rcb5 at msn.com
Wed Jul 24 12:43:25 EST 2002


Hutcheon, B. and Yarom, Y.  (2000). Resonance, oscillation and the intrinsic
frequency preferences of neurons. Trends in Neuroscience, vol 23, No.5,
216-222.

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From: "mat" <mats_trash at hotmail.com>
To: <neur-sci at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 6:35 AM
Subject: oscillations


> Im  reading around the literature on nerual oscillations given the
> current vogue for explaining many aspects of function (binding
> problem, consciousness) through them.  However, I'm a little confused
> as to what is actually referred to by 'oscillation' (i.e. what is
> oscillating?).  Is it the fluctuation of resting membrane potentials
> or is it more about the sequential firing of spatially distributed at
> certain frequencies.  i.e. given neurons A, B Is the oscillation
> A-B-A-B-A-B
>
> Cheers for any explanations or refs to that effect.
>

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