Softky, William R. and Koch, Christof (1992) Cortical cells should fire regularly, but do not. Neural Computation, 4 (5). pp. 643-646. ISSN 0899-7667. doi:10.1162/neco.1992.4.5.643. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:SOFnc92
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Abstract
When a typical nerve cell is injected with enough current, it fires a regular stream of action potentials. But cortical cells in vivo usually fire irregularly, reflecting synaptic input from presynaptic cells as well as intrinsic biophysical properties. We have applied the theory of stochastic processes to spike trains recorded from cortical neurons (Tuckwell 1989) and find a fundamental contradiction between the large interspike variability observed and the much lower values predicted by well-accepted biophysical models of single cells.
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Additional Information: | © 1992 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Received 29 October 1991; accepted 4 February 1992. This research was funded by a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, by the Office of Naval Research, and by the James S. McDonnell Foundation. | ||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1162/neco.1992.4.5.643 | ||||||||
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