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peristimulus

peristimulus adjective: around the time of a stimulus, when neurons fire.

Adjective

peristimulus (not comparable)

  1. Around the time of a stimulus, when neurons fire.
    • For non-smoothing visualization of spiking dynamics, we applied the instantaneous interspike interval (ISI) method instead of the classical peristimulus time histogram (PSTH) to avoid both arbitrariness of bin placement and the problem of bin width optimization.2015 December 5, “Compass Cells in the Brain of an Insect Are Sensitive to Novel Events in the Visual World”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of peristimulus

From peri- + stimulus.

Questions about peristimulus

What does peristimulus mean?
Peristimulus means around the time of a stimulus, when neurons fire.
What part of speech is peristimulus?
Peristimulus is an adjective.

Words near peristimulus in the dictionary

  1. peristerites
  2. peristernal
  3. peristeronic
  4. peristeropod
  5. peristeropodous
  6. peristimulus
  7. peristole
  8. peristoma
  9. peristomal
  10. peristomata
  11. peristomate

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