Temporal Firing Patterns of Spontaneous Activity For decades, temporal code has been considered as an important mode encoding neural information and evidence for temporal code in the cortex neurons and the receptors is growing. However, the basic temporal firing patterns that may constitute to the temporal coding mode and their generating mechanisms in the neurons Temporal Firing Patterns of Spontaneous Activity For decades, temporal code has been considered as an important mode encoding neural information and evidence for temporal code in the cortex neurons and the receptors is growing. However, the basic temporal firing patterns that may constitute the temporal coding mode and their generating mechanisms in the neurons