What are the steps from a neuron firing to numbers in the computer? · Lobeworks/17

Ions move across the neuron's membrane, which changes the field and the potential of the fluid; the titanium nitride electrode on the shank picks that up by capacitive coupling; a CMOS switch on the shank connects it to a channel; in the base a low-noise amplifier and filters condition it and a 10-bit converter turns i

What are the steps from a neuron firing to numbers in the computer?

Ions move across the neuron's membrane, which changes the field and the potential of the fluid; the titanium nitride electrode on the shank picks that up by capacitive coupling; a CMOS switch on the shank connects it to a channel; in the base a low-noise amplifier and filters condition it and a 10-bit converter turns it into numbers 30,000 times a second; the numbers leave by the flex cable to the headstage and the computer, where spike sorting assigns them to neurons. In one line: ions, field, voltage, electrons, converter, numbers.