Performance Limitations of Relay Neurons
Figure 8
A. Voltage profile of the 3rd order model in the bursting mode () B. zoomed in view of a burst C.
vs
for the
order model.
In this Figure, we illustrate the results from a 3rd order model of a thalamic neuron. A. Plots the voltage profile obtained from the model in response to pulses in . Note that each pulse in
either generates a burst of spikes or does not spike at all. B. Zoomed in view of a burst. C. Plots the theoretical and numerically computed reliability as a function of
, with
,
,
. The dotted lines are the lower and upper bounds on reliability from the (48) and (47), respectively. The solid line is plots
calculated by running simulations of (4), and the error bars indicate
. We estimated
as the minimum height of a
pulse that makes the neuron generate a successful response.