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Single-unit recording Single Unit Recording is the use of an electrode to record the electrophysiological activity (action potentials) from a single neuron. The electrode introduced into the brain of a living animal will detect electrical activity that is generated by the neurons adjacent to the electrode tip. If the electrode is a microelectrode, with a tip size of 3 to 10 micrometers, the electrode will often isolate the activity of a single neuron. The activity consists of the voltages generated in the extra cellular matrix by the current fields outside the cell when it generates an action potential. Recording in this way is generally called "single-unit" recording. The recorded action potentials look very much like the action potentials that are recorded intracellularly, but the signals are very much smaller (typically about 0.1 mV).