Effects of the refractory period on the IPI probability density function of junctional output pulse train

Author

Hu, X.L. ; Zhang, Y.T. ; Bao, Jiali

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36434

Abstract

The refractory period, especially the absolute refractoriness, needs to be considered when studying the pulse train transmission at the gap junction of the giant motor synapse of the crayfish. This paper reports a theoretical analysis on the probability density function of the output interpulse intervals (IPIs) by taking into account the effect of the absolute refractory period at the post-membrane. The result in this paper should be useful in the study of biological neural networks

Keywords

Poisson distribution; biomembranes; neural nets; neurophysiology; biological neural networks; crayfish; gap junction; giant motor synapse; homogeneous Poisson process; junctional output pulse train; output interpulse intervals; post-membrane; probability density function; pulse train transmission; refractory period effect; Biological neural networks; Biomedical engineering; Biomembranes; Convolution; Density functional theory; Distribution functions; Marine vehicles; Neurons; Probability density function; Statistical distributions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

[Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 1999. 21st Annual Conference and the 1999 Annual Fall Meetring of the Biomedical Engineering Society] BMES/EMBS Conference, 1999. Proceedings of the First Joint

Conference_Location

Atlanta, GA

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5674-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1999.804173

Filename

804173