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The time course of sensory adaptation in the cockroach tactile spine
1Department of Physiology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Neuroscience Letters
|August 29, 1994
Abstract:
Power-law dynamics have been widely used to fit the adaptation of sensory receptors, including the cockroach tactile spine. We used a new log-binning technique to re-examine step responses in the tactile spine. The power-law only fitted responses over a restricted time period, while a sum of three exponential decays gave an accurate fit over the entire response duration.