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In order to explain the occurrence of a minimum in firing rate which occurs for certain mean input levels
For a value of
The graph of mean spike count versus
In the final subsection, several statistical properties of the main random variables associated with long term spiking activity are given, including distributions of exit times from the two relevant basins of attraction and the interspike interval.