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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Comput Neurosci. 2015 May 1;39(1):17–28. doi: 10.1007/s10827-015-0562-8

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Time required for collision to shift from faster to slower ectopic discharge site (i.e. duration of competition phase). The difference in interspike intervals (ISIs) for spikes originating at each site represents the extra time the spike from the faster site has to travel towards the slower site; the collision shifts by the distance traveled during that extra time. Dividing the total distance by the shift per ISI reveals the number of ISIs needed for the collision to shift the total distance between ectopic discharge sites. Calculations are based on 1 m separation between the ectopic discharge sites and were repeated for conduction velocities typical of C fibers (green), A-δ fibers (red), and A-β fibers (black).