We take the testing perspective to understand what the minimal discrimination time between two stimuli is for different types of rate coding neurons. Our main goal is to describe the testing abilities of two different encoding systems: place cells and grid cells. In particular, we show, through the notion of adaptation, that a fixed place cell system can have a minimum discrimination time that decreases when the stimuli are further away. This could be a considerable advantage for the place cell system that could complement the grid cell system, which is able to discriminate stimuli that are much closer than place cells.

翻译：我们从检验的视角出发，探讨不同类型速率编码神经元在两种刺激之间实现最小区分时间的问题。主要目标是描述两种不同编码系统——位置细胞与网格细胞——的检验能力。特别地，通过适应性的概念，我们证明固定位置细胞系统的最小区分时间会随着刺激间距增大而减小。这一特性可能为位置细胞系统带来显著优势，使其能够补充网格细胞系统的能力——后者能够区分比位置细胞间距更近的刺激。