How precise is the timing of action potentials?

Christoph Kirst

doi:10.3389/neuro.01.009.2009

Abstract

How precise is the timing of action potentials?

Highlights

Distributed spiking activity underlies the dynamics and function of neuronal circuits and their computational capabilities
It is widely accepted that abstract discrete time models of interacting neurons, with spike times fixed to a temporal grid, may well describe the spike rates of neurons, e.g., for balanced cortical activity, but the timing of spikes is not modeled exactly
Even simple integrate-andfire type models are more accurate because they describe neural dynamics in continuous time and may exhibit spikes at any chosen time (Brette et al, 2007)

Summary

Introduction

Distributed spiking activity underlies the dynamics and function of neuronal circuits and their computational capabilities. Even simple integrate-andfire type models are more accurate because they describe neural dynamics in continuous time and may exhibit spikes at any chosen time (Brette et al, 2007).

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