Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

peristimulus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: peri-s-tim-u-lus
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Around the time of a stimulus, when neurons fire.

Example Sentences

"For non-smoothing visualization of spiking dynamics, we applied the instantaneous interspike interval (ISI) method instead of the classical peristimulus time histogram (PSTH) to avoid both arbitrariness of bin placement and the problem of bin width optimization."

Etymology

From peri- + stimulus.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: peri

Questions

What does peristimulus mean?: Around the time of a stimulus, when neurons fire.
Where does peristimulus come from?: From peri- + stimulus.

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