A STATISTICAL ANALYZER FOR OPTIC NERVE MESSAGES
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- 20 March 1958
- journal article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology
- Vol. 41 (4), 675-692
- https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.41.4.675
Abstract
A statistical mathematical model of the discharge in a single optic nerve fiber is proposed, based on a discharge with intervals between impulses distributed independently according to a gamma distribution ("gamma discharge"). A light stimulus distorts the time axis of this discharge according to a "frequency function" which is characteristic of the stimulus.Keywords
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