Sentences with phrase «neuronal firing rate»

During the day, however, BK channels have little effect on neuron excitability in the SCN, even though one might expect the increase in neuronal firing rate to increase BK activation.

«While our findings are consistent with other reported changes in neuronal firing rates with attention, they go far beyond such descriptions, revealing never - before tested mechanisms at the synaptic level,» said study co-author Farran Briggs, PhD, assistant professor of Physiology and Neurobiology at the Geisel School of Medicine.

Not exact matches

We demonstrate this intuition by applying three different information - based measures of stimulus encoding to experimental characterizations of sensory neurons, and demonstrate a transition from «high - slope» to «peak - firing - rate» encoding as neuronal variability increases, both for single neurons and in the context of a small population.

The standard tool in performing this characterization is the neuronal tuning curve: a plot of the average firing rate of the neuron as a function of relevant stimulus parameters.

We consider recent experiments correlating neuronal activity the medial temporal cortex (area MT) to performance during two - alternative discrimination tasks [4, 5], and show how the different tasks used in these studies either isolate the effects of «high - slope» encoding [5] or «peak - firing - rate» encoding [4].

Some findings are that regular practice may weaken the limbic systems's reactivity via lower firing rate and neuronal power, strengthen the frontal and prefrontal executive / emotional functions via better intention, attention, awareness, and concentration, and possibly improve right - left brain integration.