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Stochastic Noise Application for the Assessment of Medial Vestibular Nucleus Neuron Sensitivity In Vitro
Published on: August 28, 2019
Novel class of neural stochastic resonance and error-free information transfer
Hideaki Yasuda1, Tsuyoshi Miyaoka, Jun Horiguchi
1Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Shimane University, 89-1 Enyacho, Izumo City, Shimane 693-8501, Japan.
Abstract:
We investigate a novel class of neural stochastic resonance (SR) exhibiting error-free information transfer. Unlike conventional neural SR, where the decrease of a system's response with too much noise is associated with an increase in the baseline firing rate, here the bell-shaped SR behavior of the input-output cross correlation emerges versus increasing input noise in spite of no significant increase of the baseline firing rate. The neuron thus acts as an error-free detector for weak signals. An integrate-and-fire model with short-term synaptic depression convincingly validates our experimental findings for SR in the human tactile blink reflex.
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