Mean Instantaneous Firing Frequency is Always Higher Than the Firing Rate

Neural Computation

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 477-489

  Lánský, Petr ^a   Rodriguez, Roger ^b   Sacerdote, Laura ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; TIME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 10744229974     PISSN: 08997667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089976604772744875     Document Type: Article

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