Journal article
Neural mechanisms to improve timing
Neurocomputing (Amsterdam), Vol.52, pp.833-836
2003
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-2312(02)00808-1
Abstract
We use probabilistic techniques to study neural systems which improve the timing accuracy of action potential firing. A striking example of such accuracy was discovered in the columnar region of the VNLL by Covey and Casseday (J. Neurosci. 11 (1991) 3456). In response to sound stimulation, these VNLL cells fire an action potential whose latency under repeated trials has a standard deviation of approximately
100
μs
. This is remarkable because the typical standard deviation in the auditory nerve is
1
ms
. In simple systems, we show how the improvement in timing depends on the number of incoming fibers and the number of hits required in a small time window.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Neural mechanisms to improve timing
- Creators
- C.C Mitchell - Duke University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neurocomputing (Amsterdam), Vol.52, pp.833-836
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- DOI
- 10.1016/S0925-2312(02)00808-1
- ISSN
- 0925-2312
- eISSN
- 1872-8286
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2003
- Academic Unit
- Mathematics
- Record Identifier
- 9984241055802771
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