Tesis doctoral de Sara Arganda Carreras
In the present thesis we have described a sensory code in a spike-bursting mechanoreceptor in the leech hirudo medicinalis. We have stimulated the neuron using naturalistic tactile stimuli with different statistical distributions while intracellularly recorded the cell bursting activity. Analyzing the input/output relationship, we found that this sensory code is based on the number of spikes per burst (burst size): larger number of spikes per burst codes for larger velocity values of an object indenting the skin of the animal. we also found that the burst rate codes for velocity values of the stimulus
Datos académicos de la tesis doctoral ««flexibility of neuronal codes: adaptation to stimulus statistics in a mechanosensorial neuron firing in bursts»«
- Título de la tesis: «flexibility of neuronal codes: adaptation to stimulus statistics in a mechanosensorial neuron firing in bursts»
- Autor: Sara Arganda Carreras
- Universidad: Autónoma de Madrid
- Fecha de lectura de la tesis: 29/04/2009
Dirección y tribunal
- Director de la tesis
- Gonzalo Garcia De Polavieja
- Tribunal
- Presidente del tribunal: Miguel Maravall rodriguez
- matthieu Louis (vocal)
- María José Herrero solans (vocal)
- mikko Juusola (vocal)