Joe Legris <jalegris at xympatico.ca> wrote in message news:<3FDFBB23.6060108 at xympatico.ca>...
> Matthew Kirkcaldie wrote:
> > In article <Xns94539459E651FBilZ0rhotmailcom at 202.20.93.13>,
> > BilZ0r <BilZ0r at TAKETHISOUThotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Yes, its very common. Just often another way a cell mediates negative
> >>feedback.
> >
> >
> > Why would an autapse from an excitatory neuron constitute "negative
> > feedback"? It would be a positive feedback loop if anything.
> >
> > Matthew.
>> Positive feedback might make a neuron "bursty" - so that any time it
> fires, there's a good chance it will fire many times in rapid
> succession. Maybe the length of the feedback loop sets the bursting speed.
Bursting speed ? I was under the assumption that a typical neuron
operated at its max "frequency" when bursting. If this isnt
necessarily the case, then what could be the alleged purpose of
bursting in neural computation ?