Types of Biological Neurons

• While each neuron is unique, there are many types of neurons (counts vary, but around 40).
• The models we've talked to so far are regular spiking neurons.
• Some of these groups have different firing behaviour under constant input.
• They roughly correspond to regularly spiking neurons. Aside from adaptation, with a constant input, it will spike at a constant rate.
• The most common neuron in the cortex is the pyramidal neuron and it is regularly spiking.
• Bursting neurons don't fire but then fire a burst of spikes under constant input, then become regular.
• Chattering neurons fire in bursts.