STOCHASTIC CONSTANCY, VARIABILITY AND ADAPTATION OF SPIKE GENERATION - PERFORMANCE OF A GIANT-NEURON IN THE VISUAL-SYSTEM OF THE FLY
STOCHASTIC CONSTANCY, VARIABILITY AND ADAPTATION OF SPIKE GENERATION - PERFORMANCE OF A GIANT-NEURON IN THE VISUAL-SYSTEM OF THE FLY
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00337399
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
ZAAGMAN, WH
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作者:
GESTRI, G;MASTEBROEK, HAK;ZAAGMAN, WH
The stochastic structure of the spike activity generated by a movement processing wide field element in the visual system of the fly was studied over the whole performance area of the neuron. The structure of this discharge is described in terms of an Adaptive Integrate-to-Threshold model for a wide variety of spatio-temporal stimuli and steady-state stimuli. The source of randomness in the model (e.g., the threshold) behaves like a random variable which is distributed according to a 2-state Markov renewal process. In stationary discharges generated by moving sinewave patterns, the shape of the interspike interval distribution (which, in the Integrate-to-Threshold model, reflects the shape of the threshold distribution) changes continuously from a 2-state distribution at low firing rates to a 1-state distribution at high firing rates. In dynamic conditions of the discharge, generated by temporal dynamic stimuli, the shape of the (demodulated) interval distribution of the discharge is determined by the highest instantaneous firing rate with an adaptation time constant of a few seconds. The physiological origin of this behavior is unknown.