An investigation of dentritic delay in octopus cells of the mammalian cochlear nucleus

Martin J Spencer; David B Grayden; Ian C Bruce; Hamish Meffin; Anthony N Burkitt

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An investigation of dentritic delay in octopus cells of the mammalian cochlear nucleus

Martin J Spencer, David B Grayden, Ian C Bruce, Hamish Meffin, Anthony N Burkitt

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience | FRONTIERS RES FOUND | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.3389/fncom.2012.00083

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Martin Spencer Author Biomedical Engineering

Hamish Meffin Author Biomedical Engineering

David Grayden Author Biomedical Engineering

Anthony Burkitt Author Biomedical Engineering

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Funding Acknowledgements

Michael Eager provided assistance with "NEURON" software. We also wish to thank two reviewers for their contribution. Martin J. Spencer acknowledges postgraduate scholarships from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC - 567164) and National Information and Communication Technology Australia (NICTA). The work was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP1094830). NICTA is funded by the Australian Government as represented by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Research Council through the ICT Centre of Excellence program. The Bionics Institute acknowledges the support it receives from the Victorian Government through its Operational Infrastructure Support Program.