Dynamics of a model for the variability of the interspike intervals in a retinal neuron
โ Scribed by G. Gestri
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 188 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-1200
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โฆ Synopsis
Recently, a model has been proposed to explain the statistics of the variability of interspike intervals of ganglion cells in the retina of goldfish under steady-state stimulation. In this note, it is shown that the dynamical behaviour of the model, both under steady-state and dynamical stimuli, is characterized by input-invariance of the output random process after a time transformation. This allows to study the signal-processing properties of the model, and to test its applicability by a more complete experimental analysis.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
We present a simple model describing the transition between the prefiring, firing and postfiring phases of a single neuron in a large neural net. Using typical values for the physiological parameters that enter the model, we find average interspike times that are close to those reported in experimen