Title: DIFFERENCES IN THE TIME COURSE OF SHORT-TERM DEPRESSION 1 ACROSS RECEPTIVE FIELDS ARE CORRELATED WITH DIRECTIONAL 2 SELECTIVITY IN ELECTROSENSORY NEURONS
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Department of Physiology, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, McGill University 6 Deparment of Physics, McGill University. 7 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. 8 9 *Corresponding Author: 10 Eric S. Fortune 11 Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University 12 3400 North Charles Street 13 Baltimore, MD, 21218 14 15 Number of Text Pages: 23 16 Number of Figures: 7 17 Number of Tables: 0 18 Number of Words 19 Abstract: 118 20 Introduction: 541 21 Discussion: 1129 22 23 24 Acknowledgements: This research was supported by an NSF grant 0543985 (ESF), the 25 Grass Foundation (ESF, MJC), and CIHR, NSERC, CFI, and CRC (MJC). We thank Gerald 26 Pollack, Kathleen Cullen, Rüdiger Krahe, Sam Musallam, Christopher Pack, Julio Martinez27 Trujillo, Sean Carver, and Noah Cowan for useful discussions and critical readings of the 28 manuscript. We thank Navid Hashemi for help with data analysis and Ben Dirlikov for 29 experimental support. 30 31 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (September 30, 2009). doi:10.1152/jn.00645.2009
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