By Wulfram Gerstner
This creation to spiking neurons can be utilized in advanced-level classes in computational neuroscience, theoretical biology, neural modeling, biophysics, or neural networks. It specializes in phenomenological ways instead of particular types for you to give you the reader with a conceptual framework. The authors formulate the theoretical techniques essentially with out many mathematical info. whereas the booklet includes typical fabric for classes in computational neuroscience, neural modeling, or neural networks, it additionally offers an access to present learn. No previous wisdom past undergraduate arithmetic is needed.
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1996]. B. In the framework of linear stimulus reconstruction, the estimation sest(t) (dashed) is the sum of the contributions (solid lines) of all spikes. 7 Discussion: Spikes or Up: 1. 5 Rate Codes Gerstner and Kistler Spiking Neuron Models. 7 Discussion: Spikes or Rates? 8 Summary Up: 1. 7 Discussion: Spikes or Rates? The dividing line between spike codes and firing rates is not always as clearly drawn as it may seem at first sight. Some codes which were first proposed as pure examples of pulse codes have later been interpreted as variations of rate codes.
Secondly, according to Theunissen and Miller [1995] a spike code should show a temporal structure that is more precise than the temporal structure of the stimulus. The fact that neurons show precise and reliable spike timing as such is, for them, not sufficient to classify the neuron as a temporal encoder, since the neuronal precision could just be the image of precise temporal input. Let us consider a stimulus with cut-off frequency . In order to exclude the possibility that the timing is induced by the stimulus, Theunissen and Miller propose to consider the Fourier spectrum of the higher-order reconstruction kernels.
4: A. Action potential. The Hodgkin-Huxley model has been stimulated by a short, but strong, current pulse before t = 0. The time course of the membrane u(t) = u(t) - urest for t > 0 shows the action potential (positive peak) potential followed by a relative refractory period where the potential is below the resting potential. In the spike response framework, the time course u(t) - urest of the action potential for t > 0 defines the kernel (t). B. Threshold effect in the initiation of an action potential.