Extracellular single-unit recording
= Extracellular single-unit recording
<Extracellular single-unit recording> uses an <electrode> outside a <neuron> to detect electrical events attributed to that unit's <action potentials>. It records a <spike train>, not the intracellular <membrane potential> or every input <synapse>. https://xbio-live.s3.amazonaws.com/narratives/57358/Hubel%20and%20Wiesel%201959_Guided%20paper.pdf[Hubel and Wiesel (1959), p. 575: extracellular recording methods]{ref}