The effects of input rate and synchrony on a coincidence detector: analytical solution

Shawn Mikula; Ernst Niebur

doi:10.1162/089976603321192068

The effects of input rate and synchrony on a coincidence detector: analytical solution

Neural Comput. 2003 Mar;15(3):539-47. doi: 10.1162/089976603321192068.

Authors

Shawn Mikula¹, Ernst Niebur

Affiliation

¹ Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute and Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA. mikula@jhmi.edu

PMID: 12625330
DOI: 10.1162/089976603321192068

Abstract

We derive analytically the solution for the output rate of the ideal coincidence detector. The solution is for an arbitrary number of input spike trains with identical binomial count distributions (which includes Poisson statistics as a special case) and identical arbitrary pairwise cross-correlations, from zero correlation (independent processes) to complete correlation (identical processes).

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Afferent Pathways / physiology
Animals
Electrophysiology
Humans
Models, Neurological*
Models, Statistical*
Neurons / physiology*