title: Single neuron's activity: on certain problems of modeling and interpretation.
abstract: With reference to the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model for single neuron activity, computational results and theoretical arguments are provided to discuss the accuracy and the appropriateness of analytical approximations to first-passage-time densities and its moments. A gamma approximation is initially discussed, use of which is successively made to construct a probability density of a new form that appears to be particularly suitable to approximate the as yet unknown firing probability density function.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Informatica e Applicazioni Renato Capocelli, University of Salerno, Baronissi, Italy.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Giorno
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Nobile
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Ricciardi
mesh_terms: D004058:Diffusion; D008433:Mathematics; D008954:Models, Biological; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*