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Nerve Impulse Code

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Neurological Control Systems

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Abstract

In order to explain the signal transmission and coding and decoding demonstrated experimentally in this chapter, the following model has been proposed (see Fig. 38) [35, 37, 57]. Messages sent from point A to point B are first coded, then transmitted over two parallel channels to a decoder, and finally decoded. The coded message is transmitted along the parallel channels at the rate of five letters per minute, but only one letter of the five per minute is correlated between channels. The dynamic characteristics of the input-output function are satisfied by this correlation of one letter per minute. Either channel alone is adequate for behavioral input-output, and the effect of either channel alone is indistinguishable from the other.

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Stark, L. (1968). Nerve Impulse Code. In: Neurological Control Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0706-8_3

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