The Continuum of Operating Modes for a passive Model Neuron

摘要

Whether cortical neurons act as coincidence detectors or temporal integrators has implidcations of the way in which the cortex encodes information-by average firing rate or by precise timing of action po- tentials. In this study, we examine temporal coding by a simple passive- membrane model neuron responding to a full spectrum of multisynap- tic input patterns, from highly coincident to temporally dispersed.