Sensory neural codes using multiplexed temporal scales.
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Journal Article (Review)
Determining how neuronal activity represents sensory information is central for understanding perception. Recent work shows that neural responses at different timescales can encode different stimulus attributes, resulting in a temporal multiplexing of sensory information. Multiplexing increases the encoding capacity of neural responses, enables disambiguation of stimuli that cannot be discriminated at a single response timescale, and makes sensory representations stable to the presence of variability in the sensory world. Thus, as we discuss here, temporal multiplexing could be a key strategy used by the brain to form an information-rich and stable representation of the environment.
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Duke Authors
Cited Authors
- Panzeri, S; Brunel, N; Logothetis, NK; Kayser, C
Published Date
- March 2010
Published In
Volume / Issue
- 33 / 3
Start / End Page
- 111 - 120
PubMed ID
- 20045201
Pubmed Central ID
- 20045201
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1878-108X
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
- 10.1016/j.tins.2009.12.001
Language
- eng
Conference Location
- England