peristimulus

English

Etymology

From peri- +‎ stimulus.

Adjective

peristimulus (not comparable)

1. (biology) Around the time of a stimulus, when neurons fire.
   • 2015 December 5, “Compass Cells in the Brain of an Insect Are Sensitive to Novel Events in the Visual World”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     For non-smoothing visualization of spiking dynamics, we applied the instantaneous interspike interval (ISI) method instead of the classical peristimulus time histogram (PSTH) to avoid both arbitrariness of bin placement and the problem of bin width optimization.

Anagrams

• superstimuli