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Signals which are the sum of two sinusoids of frequencies v 1 and v 2 are used to stimulate: i) an electronic analog of the leaky integrator neural model, ii) the visual neurons of the Limulus lateral eye. This makes it possible to investigate the resonant amplification of the impulse density modulation for v 1+v 2 which approaches the free-run discharge rate; this resonance is predicted by the Volterra series representation of the leaky integrator (Poggio and Torre, 1977). The resonant responses obtained look very similar for the simulated discharge and for the experimental one.
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Angelini, F., Barbi, M., Chillemi, S. et al. Resonant response of a neural model and of limulus ommatidia to double frequency stimulation. Biol. Cybernetics 36, 137–142 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00365767
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