\input zb-basic \input zb-ioport \iteman{io-port 05478615} \itemau{Longtin, Andre; Hinzer, Karin} \itemti{Encoding with bursting, subthreshold oscillations, and noise in mammalian cold receptors.} \itemso{Neural Comput. 8, No. 2, 215-255 (1996).} \itemab Summary: Mammalian cold thermoreceptors encode steady-state temperatures into characteristic temporal patterns of action potentials. We propose a mechanism for the encoding process. It is based on Plant's ionic model of slow wave bursting, to which stochastic forcing is added. \itemrv{~} \itemcc{J.3 E.4 I.2.6} \itemut{neural computation; mammalian cold thermoreceptor; temporal pattern; plant's ionic model; encoding; reverse Hopf bifurcation} \itemli{doi:10.1162/neco.1996.8.2.215} \end