The bulletin of mathematical biophysics

, Volume 13, Issue 1, pp 47–49 | Cite as

A note on facilitation and threshold phenomena

  • Norman Anderson
  • Anatol Rapoport
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Abstract

A neuron subjected to a Poisson shower of stimuli responds only ifh stimuli impinge upon it within the time interval ρ. It is shown that the derivative of the input-output curve cannot exceed unity.

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Mathematical Biology Refractory Period Biophysics Volume Single Neuron Proper Choice 
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Literature

  1. Rapoport, A. 1950. “Contribution to the Probabilistic Theory of Neural Nets: II. Facilitation and Threshold Phenomena”.Bul. Math. Biophysics,12, 187–97.MathSciNetGoogle Scholar

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© The University of Chicago Press 1951

Authors and Affiliations

  • Norman Anderson
    • 1
    • 2
  • Anatol Rapoport
    • 1
    • 2
  1. 1.The University of ChicagoChicagoUSA
  2. 2.Committee on Mathematical BiologyThe University of ChicagoChicagoUSA

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