Research Article

The Gate Theory of Pain Revisited: Modeling Different Pain Conditions with a Parsimonious Neurocomputational Model

Table 2

Stimulus intensity and firing probability of sensory/nociceptive receptors. For the qualitative purposes of our research, we elaborate a table that arbitrarily associate a verbal expression describing the intensity of a sensory/nociceptive stimulus with a firing probability interval.

Verbal expression
for stimulus intensity
Firing probability intervals in
sensory/nociceptive receptors

Very intense(0.8, 1]
Intense(0.6, 0.8]
Medium(0.4, 0.6]
Weak(0.25, 0.4]
Very weak[0, 0.20]