Comparative study of single biological neuron with an artificial neuron

Abstract

A number of artificial neural models have been presented in the literature in an effort to suggest a more accurate representation of a single biological neuron. There are numerous publications on synthetic neurons that attempted to replicate a single biological neuron, however, such models were unable to generate the spiking patterns of a real biological neuron. Therefore, there is still scope to design and research improved spiking neural models that more accurately reflect the functions of a biological neuron. This motivation drives extensive modification of an artificial neuron model to produce the spike patterns of a real biological neuron. The modified single artificial neuron model that has been proposed exhibits the functions of a biological neuron. It’s still crucial to model spiking bio-neuron behavior. Modeling a spiking bio-neuron is still an important exercise in view of possible applications of the underlying features in the areas of neuromorphic engineering, cognitive radio, and spiking neural networks.