Burst firing is a neural code in an insect auditory system

Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2008, Pages

  Eyherabide, Hugo G ^a,b,c   Rokem, Ariel ^a,b,d   Herz, Andreas V M ^a,b,e   Samengo, Inés ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BERNSTEIN CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE   (Germany)

^c CENTRO ATÓMICO BARILOCHE   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Auditory receptor; Burst spiking; Information theory; Neural code; Sensory encoding

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY RECEPTOR; AUDITORY SYSTEMS; BURST SPIKING; COMPACT REPRESENTATION; HIGH-FREQUENCY DISCHARGES; NEURAL CODE; SPECIFIC INTENSITY; TEMPORAL MODULATIONS;

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION THEORY;

NEURONS;

EID: 68149153206     PISSN: 16625188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.10.003.2008     Document Type: Article

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