A new spiking neuron model

A biologically realistic spiking neuron model has been proposed which contains a novel non linear spiking function. Proposed neuron model contains a lower order spike generating function in contrast to the spike generating function of Quadratic integrate fire neuron model. It is found that lower order terms of spike generating function is sufficient for generating biologically realistic spikes. It has been proved that proposed neuron model satisfies saddle node bifurcation. The spikes generated by the proposed neuron model has been compared with the spikes of existing spiking neuron models like Leaky Integrate fire neuron model and Quadratic Integrate and fire neuron model.

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