Pattern Discrimination on Deterministic and Noise-Induced Impulses in Neural Spike Trains

Abstract

There are considerable contrasts in between the interval distribution of firing responses caused by purely deterministic simulations and noisy ones. We use ISI-distance to calculate the distance between the deterministic and noise-induced impulse patterns of the cold receptor model. This result is instructive to understand how noise interacts with non-linear dynamics in encoding mechanisms of neuronal stimulus by using data analysis on spike trains extracted from the model.