Adaptation : the psychophysicist ’ s microelectrode
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Adaptation is a very general and basic phenomenon in biological information processing, covering a broad range from gain control to "fatigue". Adaptation provides an active mechanism for efficient data compression by removal of redundancy: encoding changes of properties rather than the properties themselves allows the visual system to acquire, transmit, process and store information in a highly economical manner while minimising losses. However, besides its functional significance, adaptation has also proven to be a valuable scientific instrument to non-invasively investigative, characterize and isolate sensory information processing pathways.
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