Figure 5.

(A) Sample realizations of optimal width processes for fast (bottom) and slow (top) spiking processes. The average over 1000 trials is plotted in the middle (σ_x = 1 and Δt_eff = 0.1). (B) Average optimal width processes for different values of prior standard deviation, all coinciding with the function $\widehat{\alpha }(t,{\sigma }_x)={(\frac{1}{3}{t}_{\text{eff}}(t)+{\sigma }_x^{-1})}^{-1}.$