Shunting Inhibition Does Not Have a Divisive Eeect on Firing Rates
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Shunting Inhibition Manuscript #1405 Shunting Inhibition Does Not Have a Divisive E ect on Firing Rates Gary R. Holt and Christof Koch October 22, 1996 Computation and Neural Systems Program, 139-74 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA. RUNNING HEAD: Shunting Inhibition Correspondence to: Gary Holt Computation and Neural Systems Program 139{74 Caltech Pasadena, CA 91125 Telephone: (818) 395-6855 Fax: (818) 796-8876 Email: [email protected]
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