Coding Efficiency of Fly Motion Processing Is Set by Firing Rate, Not Firing Precision
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Coding Efficiency of Fly Motion Processing Is Set by Firing Rate, Not Firing Precision
To comprehend the principles underlying sensory information processing, it is important to understand how the nervous system deals with various sources of perturbation. Here, we analyze how the representation of motion information in the fly's nervous system changes with temperature and luminance. Although these two environmental variables have a considerable impact on the fly's nervous system,...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Computational Biology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000860