.. currentmodule:: brian

Standard Groups
===============

Some standard types of :class:`NeuronGroup` have already been defined.
:class:`PoissonGroup` to generate spikes with Poisson statistics,
:class:`PulsePacket` to generate pulse packets with specified parameters,
:class:`SpikeGeneratorGroup` and :class:`MultipleSpikeGeneratorGroup` to
generate spikes which fire at prespecified times.

.. index::
	pair: poisson; group
	pair: poisson; input

.. autoclass:: PoissonGroup

.. index::
	single: input; pulse packet
	single: pulse packet

.. autoclass:: PulsePacket

.. index::
	pair: direct control; spikes

.. autoclass:: SpikeGeneratorGroup
.. autoclass:: MultipleSpikeGeneratorGroup

