✦ LIBER ✦
How stochastic adaptation of neurons shapes interspike interval statistics – theory and experiment
✍ Scribed by Tilo Schwalger; Karin Fisch; Jan Benda; Benjamin Lindner
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 221 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1471-2202
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✦ Synopsis
Trial-to-trial variability of neuronal responses is a prominent feature of sensory systems and has a significant impact on subsequent sensory signal processing. Fluctuations of the underlying ionic currents due to channel noise represent a major intrinsic source of noise that causes neuronal response variability. In many sensory systems it is, however, difficult to assess the type of channel noise by direct somatic recordings without severely damaging the sensory transduction machinery.