The spike trains generated by short constant-amplitude constant-frequency tone bursts in the ventral cochlear nucleus of the anaesthetised guinea pig are examined. Spikes are grouped according to the order in which they occur following the onset of the stimulus. It is found that successive inter-spike intervals have low statistical dependence according to information-theoretic measures. This is in contrast to previous observations with long-duration tone bursts in the cat dorsal and posteroventral cochlear nuclei and lateral superior olive, where it was found that long intervals tended to be followed by shorter ones and vice versa. The interval distributions can also be reasonably modelled by a shifted Gamma distribution parameterised by the dead-time and the mean and coefficient of variation of the dead-time corrected ISI distribution. Knowledge of those three parameters for each interval is sufficient to determine the peri-stimulus time histogram and the regularity measures used to classify these neurons.
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