ABSTRACT
This chapter includes a theoretical discussion of the cases that the cascaded rectifiers are DC- or AC-coupled, and that successive rectifiers have the same or different characteristics. It describes an extension of the two-sinewave EP method that allows multineuron models to be tested experimentally by comparing EP data with a library of theoretically obtained predictions for candidate models. In order to use this approach the chapter develops an ultrahigh-resolution method for wide-bandwidth EP recording and a theoretical procedure for obtaining the predictions of multineuron models. The approach described in the chapter is convenient for analyzing a physiological system from the standpoint of parallel processing, and also in terms of “dissecting” the hierarchical sequence of processing. The chapter discusses the limitations of the FFT which have led to the zoom-FFT method that allows the maximum possible resolution to be achieved in the frequency spectrum. It also discusses the advantages of frequency-domain averaging over time-domain averaging.
