What is the response to a higher-than-normal firing rate that occurs in the absence of a stimulus?Discuss
Description What Is Abnormal about Hallucinations, Sensation or Perception? Our sensory neurons fire continuously at a low baseline rate. Sometimes they fire at levels higher or lower than their baselines. Hallucinations may be thought of as interpretations of neurons that for reasons related to psychiatric problems show abnormally high firing rates in the absence of […]