[extropy-chat] Quick question

[Martin Striz]

On 4/18/06, A B <austriaaugust at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to put together a new post, but I have a basic question: What
> would be a high upper bound on the firing rate of the most active of human
> neurons (from anywhere in the human brain)?   < 2000 Hertz ? I tried to find
> this info by Googling but I wasn't succcessful.

Upper bound would be ~1000 Hz.  Typical refractory period is 5 ms,
rending the global average around 200 Hz.  Plus, temporal coding
necessitates slower spike trains.

Martin