Performance Limitations of Relay Neurons
Figure 9
A. Voltage profile of the 3rd order model in the tonic mode () B. zoomed in view of a spike 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 successful spike or generates unsuccessful spike. B. Zoomed in view of a successful spike. C. Plots theoretical and numerically computed reliability versus
, with
,
,
,
,
,
. The dotted line is plotting the lower and upper bounds on reliability from the (48) and (47), respectively. Note that here
, therefore
. The solid line 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 spike.