Cerebellar Nuclear Neurons Use Time and Rate Coding to Transmit Purkinje Neuron Pauses

Shyam Kumar Sudhakar; Benjamin Torben-Nielsen; Erik De Schutter

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004641

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Cerebellar Nuclear Neurons Use Time and Rate Coding to Transmit Purkinje Neuron Pauses

Shyam Kumar Sudhakar,

Affiliations Computational Neuroscience Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan, Laboratory of Theoretical Neurobiology and Neuro-engineering, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
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Benjamin Torben-Nielsen,

Affiliations Computational Neuroscience Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan, Biocomputation Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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Erik De Schutter

* E-mail: erik@oist.jp

Affiliations Computational Neuroscience Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan, Laboratory of Theoretical Neurobiology and Neuro-engineering, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
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Cerebellar Nuclear Neurons Use Time and Rate Coding to Transmit Purkinje Neuron Pauses

Shyam Kumar Sudhakar,
Benjamin Torben-Nielsen,
Erik De Schutter

Published: December 2, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004641

About the Authors

Shyam Kumar Sudhakar

Affiliations Computational Neuroscience Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan, Laboratory of Theoretical Neurobiology and Neuro-engineering, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium

Benjamin Torben-Nielsen

Affiliations Computational Neuroscience Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Onna-son, Okinawa, Japan, Biocomputation Research Group, University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Erik De Schutter

* E-mail: erik@oist.jp

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Analyzed the data: SKS. Wrote the paper: SKS BTN EDS. Designed research: SKS BTN EDS. Performed simulations: SKS.

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