Title :
A Flexible Renewal Process Simulator for Neural Spike Trains
Author :
Belanger, Barry F. ; Williams, William J. ; Yin, Tom C.T.
Author_Institution :
Bioelectrical Sciences Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Bioengineering Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.
fDate :
5/1/1976 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Certain neuronal spike trains may be viewed as stochastic, nonhomogeneous point process. Neuronal information may be encoded in the time-varying mean rate of the spike train in some cases. For this purpose the simulator can be modulated by arbitrary time-varying voltage waveforms.
Keywords :
Bioelectric phenomena; Cardiology; Heart; Humans; Laboratories; Myocardium; Neurons; Signal analysis; Testing; Thorax; Action Potentials; Animals; Extremities; Mathematics; Models, Biological; Movement; Neurons; Probability;
Journal_Title :
Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TBME.1976.324641
