Long-range temporal anti-correlations in paddlefish electroreceptors

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作者
Bahar, S [1 ]
Kantelhardt, JW
Neiman, A
Rego, HHA
Russell, DF
Wilkens, L
Bunde, A
Moss, F
机构
[1] Univ Missouri, Ctr Neurodynam, St Louis, MO 63121 USA
[2] Univ Giessen, Inst Theoret Phys 3, D-35392 Giessen, Germany
[3] Univ Fed Rio Grande do Norte, Dipartimento Fis, BR-59072970 Natal, RN, Brazil
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EUROPHYSICS LETTERS | 2001年 / 56卷 / 03期
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10.1209/epl/i2001-00540-7
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The paddlefish perceives its world through an array of electroreceptor organs spread over its rostrum. Using Detrended-Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) we nd long-range anticorrelations in sequences of time intervals between neural action potentials recorded from spontaneously ring electroreceptor afferents. In contrast, spontaneous discharges from mechanoreceptor afferents in the crayfish tailfan lack long-range correlations altogether. We interpret this finding as a consequence of the self-sustained oscillatory nature of the electroreceptor organ compared with the threshold-type dynamics of the mechanoreceptor.
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