Identification of MGB cells by Volterra kernels. III. A glance into the black box (Q1087494): Difference between revisions

[For part II see the preceding entry, Zbl 0609.92009.] Neuronal systems can be described by their transfer functions, which can be represented by a Volterra series expansion. While the high level of abstraction which characterizes this representation enables a global description, it is problematic, to some extent, in the context of linking the formal representation of the system to its actual structure. Based on results drawn from identification of MGB cells of the squirrel monkey, it is shown that the relative contributions can be described in neurobiological terms such as excitation and inhibition and thus be attributed to actual subsystems.