From a2c76f30c93f938e17dd37af80a06e99aa81cc2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rohith Varma Buddaraju Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 16:09:49 +0530 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Minor chamges to the Refractoriness file in the User's guide --- docs_sphinx/user/refractoriness.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs_sphinx/user/refractoriness.rst b/docs_sphinx/user/refractoriness.rst index 915ea9945..eba81a94f 100644 --- a/docs_sphinx/user/refractoriness.rst +++ b/docs_sphinx/user/refractoriness.rst @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ valid for all neurons:: refractory=2*ms) Alternatively, it can be a string expression that evaluates to a time. This -expression will be evaluated after every spike and allows for a changing +expression will be evaluated after every spike and allows for a varying refractory period. For example, the following will set the refractory period to a random duration between 1ms and 3ms after every spike:: @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ it relax back to a steady-state value between spikes:: In some cases, the condition for leaving the refractory period is not easily expressed as a certain time span. For example, in a Hodgkin-Huxley type model the threshold is only used for *counting* spikes and the refractoriness is used to -prevent to count multiple spikes for a single threshold crossing (the threshold +prevent the count of multiple spikes for a single threshold crossing (the threshold condition would evaluate to ``True`` for several time points). When a neuron should leave the refractory period is not easily expressed as a time span but more naturally as a condition that the neuron should remain refractory for as From 046b0ba9c41993469c2b4cc14c7fd75c0ce17521 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcel Stimberg Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 12:00:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Update contributor list to mention @rohithvarma3000 --- AUTHORS | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS index 6402480dc..8ce63da62 100644 --- a/AUTHORS +++ b/AUTHORS @@ -41,3 +41,4 @@ Denis Alevi (@denisalevi) Dominik Spicher (@dspicher) Felix B. Kern (@kernfel) Jan Marker (@jangmarker) +Rohith Varma Buddaraju (@rohithvarma3000)