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. 1965 May;5(3):301–316. doi: 10.1016/s0006-3495(65)86718-2

Spike Discharge Patterns of Spontaneous and Continuously Stimulated Activity in the Cochlear Nucleus of Anesthetized Cats

R R Pfeiffer, N Y-S Kiang
PMCID: PMC1367737  PMID: 19431335

Abstract

Interspike interval histograms of spontaneous and stimulated activity were computed from spike discharges of single units in the cochlear nucleus. These histograms indicate that a number of different types of spontaneous discharge patterns exist in the nucleus. The type of spontaneous activity of a given unit is related to its activity in response to continuous tones. Correlations were found between the discharge patterns of units and their anatomical locations within the nucleus.

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