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Consilience in the Peripheral Sensory Adaptation Response

View ORCID ProfileWilly Wong
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.17.953448
Willy Wong
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto M5S3G4
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Abstract

Measurements of the peripheral sensory adaptation response were compared to a simple mathematical relationship involving the spontaneous, peak and steady-state activities. This relationship is based on the geometric mean and is found to be obeyed to good approximation in peripheral sensory units showing a sustained response to prolonged stimulation. From an extensive review of past studies, the geometric mean relationship is shown to be independent of modality and is satisfied in a wide range of animal species. The consilience of evidence, from nearly one hundred years of experiments beginning with the work of Edgar Adrian, suggests that this is a fundamental result of neurophysiology.

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  • Manuscript revised and now published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience.

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