Olfactory Coding: Unusual Conductances Contribute to Sparse Neural Representation. Focus on “Intrinsic Membrane Properties and Inhibitory Synaptic Input of Kenyon Cells as Mechanisms for Sparse Coding?”
Author(s) -
Rose Ong,
Mark Stopfer
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of neurophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.302
H-Index - 245
eISSN - 1522-1598
pISSN - 0022-3077
DOI - 10.1152/jn.00330.2009
Subject(s) - neural coding , neuroscience , inhibitory postsynaptic potential , sensory system , percept , coding (social sciences) , sparse approximation , computer science , psychology , cognitive science , perception , artificial intelligence , mathematics , statistics
At the interface of animal and world, neurons transform environmental stimuli into spikes of electrical current known as action potentials. As sensory information makes its way from point to point along neural pathways, the numbers of neurons participating in the response and the numbers of spikes
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