Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience:

324 Simple ModelsBibliographical NotesMany people have used the integrate-and-fire neuron, treating it as a folklore model.It was Tuckwell’s (1988) “Introduction to Theoretical Neurobiology” that gave appropriatecredit to its inventor — Lapicque (1907). Although better models, such as thequadratic integrate-and-fire model, are available now, many scientists continue to favorthe leaky integrate-and-fire neuron mostly because of its simplicity. Such an attitude isunderstandable when one wants to derive analytical results. However, purely computa-