The power law of sensory adaptation: Simulation by a model of excitability in spider mechanoreceptor neurons

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 153-161

  French, Andrew S ^a   Torkkeli, Päivi H ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action potential; Frequency response.; Hodgkin Huxley; Information capacity; Ion channel; Neural coding

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; FREQUENCY RESPONSE; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SIGNAL ENCODING;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ENIGMATIC; ION CHANNELS; MECHANORECEPTOR NEURONS; NEURAL CODING; POWER LAW; PSEUDORANDOM NOISE STIMUALTION; SENSORY ADAPTATION;

NEURONS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTOR; NERVE CELL; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; PHYSIOLOGY; SPIDER; TOUCH;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPIDERS; TOUCH;

EID: 37449009425     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-007-9392-9     Document Type: Article

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