Refractoriness and Neural Precision
Abstract
The relationship between a neuron's refractory period and the precision of its response to identical stimuli was investigated. We constructed a model of a spiking neuron that combines probabilistic firing with a refractory period. For realistic refractoriness, the model closely reproduced both the average firing rate and the response precision of a retinal ganglion cell. The model is based on a "free" firing rate, which exists in the absence of refractoriness. This function may be a better description of a spiking neuron's response than the peri-stimulus time histogram.
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Ii and Meister. "Refractoriness and Neural Precision." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1997.Markdown
[Ii and Meister. "Refractoriness and Neural Precision." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1997.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1997/ii1997neurips-refractoriness/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{ii1997neurips-refractoriness,
title = {{Refractoriness and Neural Precision}},
author = {Ii, Michael J. Berry and Meister, Markus},
booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {1997},
pages = {110-116},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1997/ii1997neurips-refractoriness/}
}