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Biophysically grounded sensory neuron models.
10 cell types covering major sensory modalities:
- Auditory: inner/outer hair cells (graded, mechano-electrical)
- Visual: rod/cone photoreceptors (graded, hyperpolarising), retinal ganglion (ON/OFF spiking)
- Somatosensory: Merkel (slow adapting), Pacinian (fast adapting)
- Pain: nociceptor (threshold, sensitisation)
- Chemical: olfactory receptor, taste receptor
Most sensory neurons produce graded potentials (step returns f64). Only retinal ganglion and nociceptor produce spikes (step returns i32).
Structs§
- Cochlear
Hair Cell - Cochlear inner hair cell: mechano-electrical transduction.
- Cone
Photoreceptor - Cone photoreceptor — photopic (bright light) colour vision.
- Direction
SelectiveRGC - Direction-selective retinal ganglion cell (DS-RGC) with On/Off sub-types.
- Inner
Hair Cell - Inner hair cell — primary auditory transducer.
- Merkel
Cell - Merkel cell — slowly adapting type I (SAI) mechanoreceptor.
- Nociceptor
- Nociceptor — high-threshold pain receptor neuron.
- Olfactory
Receptor Neuron - Olfactory receptor neuron — chemical-to-spike transducer.
- Outer
Hair Cell - Outer hair cell — cochlear amplifier via prestin electromotility.
- Pacinian
Corpuscle - Pacinian corpuscle — rapidly adapting (RA/RAII) mechanoreceptor.
- Retinal
Ganglion Cell - Retinal ganglion cell — Pillow et al. 2005 GLM.
- RodPhotoreceptor
- Rod photoreceptor — scotopic vision with Ca²⁺ feedback.
- Taste
Receptor Cell - Taste receptor cell — gustatory transducer.