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View SchemaUniversal Statistical Behavior of Neural Spike Trains
| Authors | N. Brenner, O. Agam, W. Bialek, R. de Ruyter van Steveninck |
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| ArXiv ID | physics/9801026 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9801026 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.4000 |
Abstract
We construct a model that predicts the statistical properties of spike trains generated by a sensory neuron. The model describes the combined effects of the neuron's intrinsic properties, the noise in the surrounding, and the external driving stimulus. We show that the spike trains exhibit universal statistical behavior over short times, modulated by a strongly stimulus-dependent behavior over long times. These predictions are confirmed in experiments on H1, a motion-sensitive neuron in the fly visual system.
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