Weber's law implies neural discharge more regular than a Poisson process

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1006-1018

  Kang, Jing ^a   Wu, Jianhua ^b   Smerieri, Anteo ^c   Feng, Jianfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Attractor network; Interspike interval; Psychophysical law; Spike rate

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77949565865     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07145.x     Document Type: Article

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