Lapicque’s 1907 paper: from frogs to integrate-and-fire

  • Authors:
  • Nicolas Brunel;Mark C. W. van Rossum

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Paris Descartes, CNRS UMR 8119, Laboratory of Neurophysics and Physiology, 45 rue des Saints Pères, 75270, Paris Cedex 06, France;University of Edinburgh, Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, 5 Forrest Hill, EH1 2QL, Edinburgh, UK

  • Venue:
  • Biological Cybernetics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Exactly 100 years ago, Louis Lapicque published a paper on the excitability of nerves that is often cited in the context of integrate-and-fire neurons. We discuss Lapicque’s contributions along with a translation of the original publication.