RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Consilience in the Peripheral Sensory Adaptation Response
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2020.02.17.953448
DO 10.1101/2020.02.17.953448
A1 Willy Wong
YR 2021
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2021/10/08/2020.02.17.953448.abstract
AB 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.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.