0 present participle of spike
1 to decide not to publish an article in a newspaper:
The story was deemed too controversial and so they spiked it.
2 to make a drink stronger by adding alcohol, or to add flavour or interest to something:
3 in the sport of volleyball, to hit the ball so that it goes almost straight down on the other side of the net
5 to rise to a higher amount, price, or level, usually before going down again:
Spiking tended to occur on the depolarizing crest of such oscillations with depolarization and, thus, in a similar gamma range of frequencies.
The transition from molecular chaos to coherent spiking can be understood as emergence of a functional structure in the originally uniform population.
Secondly, ipsilateral stimulation generated relatively prolonged discharges of low-amplitude spiking that were distinct from the high-amplitude bursts evoked by contralateral stimulation.
Several # spiking neurons (predominantly pyramidal cells) were measured in each rat.
The effect of nicotine was defined as suppression if the light-induced spiking decreased or was blocked during nicotine application.
When the dendrites were not regularly spiking, the receptive field radius was only 250 mm.
Firstly, the reformation of the retinotopic map in the optic tectum involves growth processes that are differentially affected by spiking activity in the optic nerve.
Stable propagation of synchronous spiking in cor tical neural networks.
