APA Dictionary of Psychology
spike
- n.
- in behavioral neuroscience, a train of electrical signals recorded from an individual neuron in the brain. Spikes are the action potentials or signals generated by neurons to communicate with one another.
- in a time-series analysis, a point in time at which there is a sharp increase followed by a rapid decrease in measurements on the dependent variable.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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