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ArticleCognitive neurodynamics2016

The membrane potential process of a single neuron seen as a cumulative damage process.

Mauricio Tejo, Sebastián Niklitschek-Soto

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Article in Cognitive neurodynamics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Mauricio TejoFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad de Playa Ancha, Leopoldo Carvallo 270, Valparaiso, Chile.
Sebastián Niklitschek-SotoDepartamento de Estadística, Facultad de Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Universidad de Concepción, Víctor Lamas 1290, Concepción, Chile.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A simple integrate-and-fire mechanism of a single neuron can be compared with a cumulative damage process, where the spiking process is analogous to rupture sequences of a material under cycles of stress. Although in some cases lognormal-like patterns can be recognized in the inter-spike times under a simple integrate-and-fire mechanism, fatigue life models as the inverse Gaussian distribution and the Birnbaum-Saunders distribution (which was recently introduced in the neural activity framework) provide theoretical arguments that make them more suitable for the modeling of the resulting inter-spike times.

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Integrate-and-fire modelInter-spike distributionInverse Gaussian and Birnbaum–Saunders distributionsLognormal

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PMID27891205
PMCPMC5106455

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