Fig. 2.

Stellate cells display rebound spiking in response to a limited range of phases of hyperpolarizing input pulses and with a limited range of output spiking phases. (a) An example stellate cell response (top, black) to the standard input (bottom, gray) is shown at three time scales (a1, a2 and a3) to demonstrate rebound spiking behavior. (b) Rose plots correspond to the data in a2 and show the phases, relative to the baseline oscillation, of hyperpolarizing input pulses that induce spiking (b1) and the phases of output spiking (b2). The black line in each rose plot is the MRA, and the length of the line is indicative of the MRL of the phase distribution. Uppercase letters in b1 and b2 correspond to those in a2 and show what phase bin each hyperpolarizing input pulse (A–D) or output spike (E and F) falls into for each corresponding rose plot. (c) Rose plots show the same input and output phase analyses as in b1–b2 but correspond to all data collected in response to the standard input for this representative cell.