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OFF-dominated cortical neurons in cats responded ∼3 ms faster to visual stimuli than ON-dominated cortical neurons, and dark-mediated suppression in ON-dominated neurons peaked ∼14 ms faster than light-mediated suppression in OFF-dominated neurons. (zotero.org)
Population responses of cortical neurons encode considerable details about sensory stimuli, and the encoded information is likely to change with stimulus context and behavioral conditions. (elsevierpure.com)
We recorded from neurons in the forelimb part of the C3 zone 'in action' by recording from single cerebellar cortical neurons located in different microzones defined by their peripheral receptive field properties during a forelimb reach-retrieval task in cats. (lu.se)
This basic research has been hampered by the lack of a means to safely stimulate large numbers of cortical neurons. (utah.edu)

Using non-invasive fMRI techniques, this method gives the possibility to examine assumptions about center-surround receptive fields in human subjects. (zotero.org)
The primary line of information transmission is from photoreceptor to bipolar cell to ganglion cell and then to the brain, but the amacrine and horizontal cells provide lateral transmission lines that can produce the complicated center-surround receptive fields of ganglion cells. (medscape.com)

In visual cortex, stimulation outside the classical receptive field can decrease neural activity and also decrease functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) signal amplitudes. (zotero.org)
Using a cross-validation method we could robustly decode both the orientation and the direction of the bar within the classical receptive field (cRF). (github.io)

The receptive fields of neurons in the early visual system are often characterised as such filters. (ecvp.eu)
For example, GLMs are typically used to estimate receptive fields of neurons, where the input is an image of hundreds of pixels. (nips.cc)

The stimulation of this feedback receptive field (fbRF) elicits responses that are slower and are delayed in comparison with those resulting from the stimulation of the ffRF. (nature.com)
We investigated this issue by recording responses of neurons in area MT of two rhesus monkeys while they performed two different tasks. (jneurosci.org)
In both conditions, neuronal responses progressively increased as the RDPs entered the neurons' receptive field (RF), peaked when they reached its center, and decreased as they translated away. (jneurosci.org)
Responses of neurons in macaque MT to unikinetic plaids. (nyu.edu)
Visual attention modulates neuronal responses in primate motion processing area MT. However, whether it modulates the strength local field potentials (LFP-power) within this area remains unexplored, as well as how this modulation relates to the one of the neurons' response. (jneurosci.org)
A multiplication of postsynaptic potentials tuned to ITD and ILD can account for the subthreshold responses of these neurons to ITD-ILD pairs. (elsevierpure.com)
Comparing the responses of directional neurons to the sequence with the sum of the responses to each individual stimulus presentation ('linear expectation') allows one to calculate the nonlinear response component as the difference between the sequence response and the linear expectation. (elifesciences.org)
By assessing the fidelity of such reconstructions from responses to modulated noise stimuli, we estimated the range over which AI neurons can faithfully encode spectro-temporal features. (elsevierpure.com)
Attendees will learn about techniques to extract population receptive fields (pRFs, Serge Dumoulin) and other cortical response properties (Ilona Bloem) from neuroimaging data, temporal models to predict neural activity measured with ECoG (Iris Groen), and probabilistic methods to decode the information contained in population-level responses on a trial-by-trial basis (Janneke Jehee). (ecvp.eu)
Contrast-dependent changes in spatial summation and contextual modulation of primary visual cortex (V1) neuron responses to stimulation of their receptive field reveal long-distance integration of visual signals within V1, well beyond the classical receptive field (cRF) of single neurons. (utah.edu)
Neural responses are not there to be read by some little homunculus, they are just neurons that are exciting other neurons, which you are not recording. (romainbrette.fr)
With the same experiment, you should see different responses, varying systematically with stimulated neurons. (romainbrette.fr)

In the visual system, these feedforward pathways define the classical feedforward receptive field (ffRF), the area in space in which visual stimuli excite a neuron 1 . (nature.com)
What stimuli excite a neuron, and how can we find them? (plos.org)

Feedback projections may therefore enable neurons to use context to estimate information that is missing from the ffRF and to report differences in stimulus features across visual space, regardless of whether excitation occurs inside or outside the ffRF. (nature.com)
Our results show that attentive tracking dynamically changes MT neurons' RF profiles, ultimately improving the neurons' ability to encode the tracked stimulus features. (jneurosci.org)
In encoding space or other stimulus features, individual neurons appear to possess analogous functional properties related to the synthesis of high-order receptive fields. (elsevierpure.com)
The details of encoding are difficult to discern across large sets of single neuron data because of the complexity of naturally occurring stimulus features and cortical receptive fields. (elsevierpure.com)
Recent findings open the door to a new perspective on the encoding of visual space and other features by cortical circuits, one that emphasizes specialization of cortical circuits for processing different stimulus features in different regions of visual space. (frontiersin.org)

So you could suggest: maybe sound location is represented by the most active neurons. (romainbrette.fr)
Yes, sound location is represented by the identity of most active neurons, the average response and the pattern of activity: there is a mapping between sound location and those different features. (romainbrette.fr)
Is the identity of active neurons important? (romainbrette.fr)

Feedback inputs from higher visual areas have scattered receptive fields relative to their putative targets in the primary visual cortex, which enables the generation of the fbRF. (nature.com)

Within frontal space, maps and such rate codes involve different response patterns at the level of individual neurons. (duke.edu)

In this paper, a novel, simplified and computationally efficient model of spike response model (SRM) neuron with spike-time dependent plasticity (STDP) learning is presented. (springeropen.com)

To overcome this problem, we used the method of stimulus reconstruction to study how complex sounds are encoded in primary auditory cortex (AI). (elsevierpure.com)
These abilities are fundamental for auditory processing and are of great interest for understanding how the auditory cortex accurately encodes complex sounds, such as speech. (andersonlab.science)

Whereas somatostatin-expressing inhibitory neurons are driven by these large stimuli, inhibitory neurons that express parvalbumin and vasoactive intestinal peptide have mutually antagonistic fbRF and ffRF, similar to excitatory neurons. (nature.com)
Anti-GAD65 antibody (Ab) acts on the terminals of inhibitory neurons that suppress GABA release, whereas anti-VGCC, anti-mGluR1, and anti-GluR Abs impair LTD induction. (springer.com)
First, since chained inhibitory neurons shape the output signals through the mechanism of disinhibition/inhibition, impairments of GABA release and LTD distort the conversion process from the "internal model" to the output signals. (springer.com)

This multiplicative stimulation is known as gain-field encoding. (wikipedia.org)
they are normally silent and respond only to high-threshold noxious stimulation, poorly encoding stimulus intensity. (brainkart.com)
Although they are found throughout the dorsal horn, WDR neurons are most abundant in lamina V. During repeated stimulation, WDR neurons characteristically increase their firing rate exponentially in a graded fashion ("wind-up"), even with the same stimulus intensity. (brainkart.com)
Furthermore, increased ipRGC stimulation enhanced a spatial tuning in sensitivity according to changes in shape of the receptive field. (conf.tw)

Here, we show that the effect of the two objectives on the resulting receptive field properties is in fact very different. (zotero.org)

The discrepant response patterns were not segregated into different neural populations but occurred in the same neurons. (duke.edu)
Brain function relies on communication between large populations of neurons across multiple brain areas, a full understanding of which would require knowledge of the time-varying activity of all neurons in the central nervous system. (zotero.org)
Demonstrating how this technique can be used to reveal functionally defined circuits across the brain, we identify two populations of neurons with correlated activity patterns. (zotero.org)
Recent advances in microelectrode array technology now permit a direct examination of the way populations of sensory neurons encode information about a limb's position in space. (utah.edu)

Neurons respond maximally to characteristic frequencies. (powershow.com)
If it is the same neuron that is most active for different sounds coming from the same location, then you have the kind of representation I am talking about: maximally active neuron is a representation of (specifically) sound location. (romainbrette.fr)

Here we show that feedback projections onto excitatory neurons in the mouse primary visual cortex generate a second receptive field that is driven by stimuli outside the ffRF. (nature.com)
The parietal reach region uses gain-field encoding to calculate the amount of hand displacement needed to reach for an object. (wikipedia.org)
A previous study has demonstrated that the amplitude of local field potentials oscillations (LFP-power) in this area encodes, within certain frequencies, motion direction and speed ( Liu and Newsome, 2006 ). (jneurosci.org)
Given these physiological observations, the bio-inspired afferents are randomly connected to the several neighboring mechanoreceptors with different weights to form their own receptive field. (nature.com)
Various models have been proposed to explain the response properties of complex cells using a sparsity or a slowness criterion and it has been concluded that physiologically plausible receptive field properties can be derived from either criterion. (zotero.org)
In the Hassenstein-Reichardt detector ( Figure 1a ), the delay is on the preferred side, that is where a preferred direction stimulus is entering the receptive field of the detector, and the non-linearity is excitatory. (elifesciences.org)
In the Barlow-Levick detector ( Figure 1b ), the delay is on the null side, that is where a null direction stimulus is entering the receptive field of the detector, and the nonlinearity is inhibitory. (elifesciences.org)
Although the processing of moving visual signals depends upon the capability of a system to integrate spatial and temporal information, no study has investigated the spectral receptive field organization of the caudate nucleus neurons yet. (berenyilab.com)
In humans and animals with a fovea ( cones in the retina), a big portion of V1 is mapped to the small, central portion of visible discipline, a phenomenon known as cortical magnification 14 Maybe for the aim of correct spatial encoding, neurons in V1 have the smallest receptive field size of any visible cortex microscopic areas. (horoscopochino2014.net)
Generally, to probe a neuron's response property to moving stimuli, bars or gratings are drifted across neuron's receptive field at various angles. (github.io)
For that purpose, we used a decoding approach based on a space-time receptive field model that encodes jointly orientation and direction. (github.io)
Neurons in different microzones of the C3 zone, functionally determined by receptive field characteristics, differed in their patterns of activity during movement. (lu.se)
Groups of Purkinje cells belonging to different receptive field classes, and therefore belonging to different microzones, were found to collectively encode different aspects of the reach controlled by the C3 zone. (lu.se)
The dominant graph-to-sequence transduction models employ graph neural networks for graph representation learning, where the structural information is reflected by the receptive field of neurons. (paperswithcode.com)
These codes often arise from stereotyped stimulus-response maps, associating to each neuron a convex receptive field. (psu.edu)
Our main finding is that these objects can be expressed in a "canonical form" that directly translates to a minimal description of the receptive field structure intrinsic to the code. (psu.edu)
In many parts of the brain, neurons are sensitive to changes in small parts of the visual field, sampled by the retina in the back of the eye. (frontiersin.org)
Often, nearby neurons in the brain signal changes in nearby visual field locations. (frontiersin.org)
By contrast, Dscam diversity ensures that inappropriate repulsive interactions between dendrites sharing the same receptive field do not occur. (elsevierpure.com)
2009). Visual field maps, population receptive field sizes, and visual field coverage in the human MT+ complex. (scirp.org)

A longstanding question in sensory neuroscience is what types of stimuli drive neurons to fire. (plos.org)

The cell bodies of primary afferent neurons are located in the dorsal root ganglia, which lie in the vertebral foramina at each spinal cord level. (brainkart.com)
Each neuron has a single axon that bifurcates, sending one end to the peripheral tissues it innervates and the other into the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. (brainkart.com)
In the dorsal horn, the pri-mary afferent neuron synapses with a second-order neuron whose axon crosses the midline and ascends in the contralateral spinothalamic tract to reach the thalamus. (brainkart.com)
The majority of first-order neurons send the proximal end of their axons into the spinal cord via the dorsal (sensory) spinal root at each cervical, thoracic, lum-bar, and sacral level. (brainkart.com)
Once in the dorsal horn, in addition to synapsing with second-order neurons, the axons of first-order neurons may synapse with interneurons, sympathetic neurons, and ventral horn motor neurons. (brainkart.com)
Pain fibers may ascend or descend one to three spinal cord segments in Lissauer's tract before synapsing with second-order neurons in the gray matter of the ipsilateral dorsal horn. (brainkart.com)
WDR neurons are the most prevalent cell type in the dorsal horn. (brainkart.com)
Deciphering mechanically activated ion channels at the single-channel level in dorsal root ganglion neurons. (ohsu.edu)

Indeed, activation of tactile afferents spatially encodes the contact stimuli and sends the tactile information to the upper layers of the somatosensory pathway. (nature.com)
In the model, neurons have spatially local classical receptive fields, are tuned to orientation, and receive information (from V1) about the location and orientation of borders. (zotero.org)

However, it remains uninvestigated whether directing attention to an object's spatial position, or feature encoded by MT neurons, modulates LFP-power in this area. (jneurosci.org)
Second, we isolated in each band the effects of attending to an object's spatial position (inside vs outside a neuron's RF), or to a feature encoded by MT neurons (motion direction), by contrasting measurements corresponding to the different conditions. (jneurosci.org)
Therefore, we tested caudate neurons of the feline brain by extracellular single-cell recording applying drifting sinewave gratings of various spatial and temporal frequencies, and reconstructed their spectral receptive fields by plotting their responsiveness as a function of different combinations of spatial and temporal frequencies. (berenyilab.com)
In one-quarter of the recorded caudate neurons ridge tuning was found, where the region of increased activity, forming an elongated ridge of maximal sensitivity parallel or angled to the spatial or the temporal frequency axis, indicating temporal (16%), spatial (5%) or speed (5%) tuning, respectively. (berenyilab.com)
These neurons, which are located in the ventral premotor cortex, have spatial receptive fields that extend a limited distance outward from the head. (princeton.edu)
Of course, neural circuits encode many other aspects of visual stimuli aside from spatial location, including features critical for different visuo-motor behaviors such as identifying objects, tracking or otherwise interacting with objects, and moving through the world. (frontiersin.org)
Based on our review and analysis of this evidence, we propose that the joint encoding of ego-centric spatial location and functional features is a canonical organizing principle of the visual system, likely reflecting evolutionary pressures that shape neural circuitry to optimally represent regularities in functionally relevant visual information. (frontiersin.org)

This suggests that a given population of neurons can use different codes to support appropriate multimodal behavior. (duke.edu)
Efficient coding models predict that the optimal code for natural images is a population of oriented Gabor receptive fields. (nips.cc)
Precisely, we considered the response of V1 neurons to an oriented moving bar to investigate whether, and how, the information about the bar's orientation and direction could be encoded dynamically at the population activity level. (github.io)
Visual working memory capacity in retinotopic cortex: Number, resolution, and population receptive fields. (scirp.org)
Sensitive genetically encoded sensors for population and subcellular imaging of cAMP in vivo. (ohsu.edu)

Here, we examine the context dependence of auditory cortical mechanisms for speech encoding at the level of the representation of fundamental acoustic features (spectrotemporal modulations) using model-based functional magnetic resonance imaging. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
I am particularly interested in cortical mechanisms that can enhance or suppress the neuronal representation of specific features of sounds because these allow neurons to fine-tune their receptive fields, a key feature of cortical sound encoding. (andersonlab.science)

The proximal axonal processes of the first-order neurons in these ganglia reach the brainstem nuclei via their respective cranial nerves, where they synapse with second-order neurons in brainstem nuclei. (brainkart.com)

This paper proposes going beyond GLMs to use generalized additive models (Poisson-GAMs) to characterize the relationship between a neuron's activity and its external input, input from other neurons, and its prior activity history. (nips.cc)

Conceivably, these two sensory systems encode object shape in similar ways, which could facilitate cross-modal communication. (zotero.org)

One circuit consists of hindbrain neurons functionally coupled to spinal cord neuropil. (zotero.org)

Here we use light-sheet microscopy to record activity, reported through the genetically encoded calcium indicator GCaMP5G, from the entire volume of the brain of the larval zebrafish in vivo at 0.8 Hz, capturing more than 80% of all neurons at single-cell resolution. (zotero.org)

I am interested in how the brain encodes and decodes visual information, and in the mechanisms that put that information to use in the control of behavior. (nyu.edu)
Understanding the mechanism by which the brain’s hundred billion neurons and hundred trillion synapses manage to produce such a range of cortical configurations in a flexible manner remains a fundamental problem in neuroscience. (zotero.org)
Here we describe neurons in the brain of macaque monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) that represent the auditory space surrounding the head, within roughly 30 cm. (princeton.edu)
Neurons in the brain represent external stimuli via neural codes. (psu.edu)
An important problem confronted by the brain is to infer properties of a represented stimulus space without knowledge of the receptive fields, using only the intrinsic structure of the neural code. (psu.edu)
Encoding and decoding models are widely used in the analysis of brain data. (ecvp.eu)
Thoughts are organized by the brain, specifically the left hemisphere, and encoded into a sequence according to learned grammatic and linguistic rules. (medscape.com)

In the auditory system, the inner ear breaks down complex signals into their spectral components, and encodes the amplitude and phase of each. (elsevierpure.com)
And one of the key building blocks of brains is the neuron, a tiny cell that sends signals to other neurons over connections. (oreilly.com)
So, an ANN is an attempt to simulate a collection of neuron-like components that send signals to each other. (oreilly.com)
Researchers in ANNs write a program that simulates these neurons and the signals that travel between them, yielding a process vaguely reminiscent of what happens in brains. (oreilly.com)
The challenge is that simply connecting a bunch of neuron-like elements to each other and letting them share signals does not yield intelligence. (oreilly.com)

Considering the analogy with orientation selective neurons, more significant directions (e.g., horizontal and vertical) may be represented differently from others. (conf.tw)
Stimulate neurons at different places and you should see the same orientation response. (romainbrette.fr)

This approach is not for mapping spatio-temporal receptive fields. (nips.cc)
2011). Temporal dynamics of encoding, storage, and reallocation of visual working memory. (scirp.org)

Locomotion activates PKA through dopamine and adenosine in striatal neurons. (ohsu.edu)

Unlike graph neural networks that restrict the information exchange between immediate neighborhood, we propose a new model, known as Graph Transformer, that uses explicit relation encoding and allows direct communication between two distant nodes. (paperswithcode.com)

In the following, we will apply this approach in order to investigate which of the two mechanisms is at work in primary motion-sensitive neurons of the fruit fly Drosophila . (elifesciences.org)
Here we demonstrate that dendrite self-avoidance in Drosophila da sensory neurons requires cell-recognition molecules encoded by the Dscam locus. (elsevierpure.com)

Altered functional interactions between neurons in primary visual cortex of macaque monkeys with experimental amblyopia. (nyu.edu)

Neurons with fbRFs are located in cortical layers that receive strong feedback projections and are absent in the main input layer, which is consistent with a laminar processing hierarchy. (nature.com)

Hubel, D. H. & Wiesel, T. N. Receptive fields, binocular interaction and functional architecture in the cat's visual cortex. (nature.com)
Future studies are necessary to discover mechanisms underlying joint encoding of location and functional information, how this relates to behavior, emerges during development, and varies across species. (frontiersin.org)

Modeling single neurons (classical computational neuroscience, spiking models, current models, firing rate models), or what can math/physics tell us about neurons? (tum.de)
the main experimental tool is electrophysiological recording from single neurons in monkeys. (nyu.edu)
To test this idea, we studied single neurons in macaque monkey intermediate visual (area V4) and somatosensory (area SII) cortex, using matched shape stimuli. (zotero.org)
This important visual cue, however, is not explicitly encoded at the output of a single photoreceptor but rather has to be computed by subsequent neural circuits. (elifesciences.org)
Frontal cortex neuron types categorically encode single decision variables. (nih.gov)
This is not a property that you will find at a single neuron level. (romainbrette.fr)
How Many Sensory Modalities Can a Single Neuron Detect? (nawafnet.net)
So, how many sensory modalities can a single sensory neuron have? (nawafnet.net)
In some cases, a single sensory neuron can exhibit sensitivity to a wide range of stimuli that are seemingly unrelated, such as vibration, pressure, and stretching. (nawafnet.net)
This indicates that sensory neurons are not just simple "on/off" switches, but rather complex machinery that is capable of encoding information about multiple sensory modalities in a single signal. (nawafnet.net)
While the exact number of modalities that a single sensory neuron can have may vary, it is clear that these neurons play a critical role in shaping our perception of the world around us. (nawafnet.net)
However, this is not always the case, and a single sensory neuron can sometimes respond to multiple sensory modalities. (nawafnet.net)

Maps consist of neurons exhibiting circumscribed receptive fields, whereas rate codes involve open-ended response patterns that peak in the periphery. (duke.edu)
We report that, for visual stimuli, neurons showed circumscribed receptive fields consistent with a map, but for auditory stimuli, they had open-ended response patterns consistent with a rate or level-of-activity code for location. (duke.edu)
Neurons from individual microzones had characteristic patterns of activity during movement, indicating that function is organized in relation to microcomplexes. (lu.se)

We found that all four subtypes of both T4 and T5 cells implement both mechanisms, that is preferred direction enhancement and null direction inhibition, on opposing sides of their receptive fields. (elifesciences.org)

Following the success of deep learning in the domain of AI, recent years have seen an influx of deep neural network models into the domain of visual neuroscience, too, where they act as image-computable, task-performing, and normative models, in which millions of parameters are used to encode world knowledge. (ecvp.eu)

First, we determined the direction and contrast selectivity of the LFPs in different frequency bands, as well as the correlation of the LFP-power in each band with the neurons spiking activity. (jneurosci.org)
Auditory neurons demonstrate remarkable selectivity for a restricted set of sound features, and they can maintain this selectivity across a wide range of auditory environments. (andersonlab.science)

Examples of bipolar neurons include most invertebrate sensory neurons and bipolar cells of the vertebrate retina. (wisdomanswer.com)

Examples of multiplication by neurons or neural circuits are scarce, but many computational models assume the existence of this basic operation. (elsevierpure.com)
Different spiking neuron mathematical models exist, but their computational complexity makes them ill-suited for hardware implementation. (springeropen.com)
Different neuron models exist [ 9 ] but their computational complexity and memory requirements are high, limiting their use in robotics, embedded systems and real-time or mobile applications in general. (springeropen.com)

Theparallel pathways that process these cues merge in the external nucleus of the inferior colliculus where the space-specific neurons are selective to combinations of ITD and ILD. (elsevierpure.com)

In the fruit fly optic lobe, T4 and T5 cells represent the first direction-selective neurons, with T4 cells responding selectively to moving brightness increments (ON) and T5 cells to brightness decrements (OFF). (elifesciences.org)

In many instances they communicate with second-order neurons through interneurons. (brainkart.com)

It is the simplest line code, directly encoding the bitstream, and is analogous to on-off keying in modulation. (wisdomanswer.com)

As opposed to traditional models for RNNs (such as LSTMs) which are based on continuous-valued neurons operating in discrete time, our model consists of discrete-valued (spiking) neurons operating in continuous time. (rctn.org)

A new method termed XDream (E X tending D eepDream with r eal-time e volution for a ctivation m aximization) combined a generative neural network and a genetic algorithm in a closed loop to create strong stimuli for neurons in the macaque visual cortex. (plos.org)
Despite the progress made in understanding visual cortex by testing limited sets of hand-chosen stimuli, these experiments could be missing the true feature preferences of neurons. (plos.org)
These results match response properties of neurons in primary visual cortex, but not those in the retina. (nips.cc)
Describe the output pathway from the ear to the cortex and how sound properties of encoded. (powershow.com)
images are encoded by the network and processed in a similar manner as the primary layers in visual cortex. (springeropen.com)
Motor cortex analogue neurons in songbirds utilize Kv3 channels to generate ultranarrow spikes. (ohsu.edu)

One of the main features of biological tactile afferents is that their distal axon branches in the skin, creating complex receptive fields. (nature.com)
These mechanoreceptors are innervated by the first-order neurons of the tactile pathway. (nature.com)

Visual response properties of V1 neurons projecting to V2 in macaque. (nyu.edu)

A recent study shows that neurons in PRR encodes not only the planned physical movement, but also the anticipated visual sensory consequence of the intended movement once the action is unfolded in time. (wikipedia.org)
Consider vision as a paradigmatic example, the selection of stimuli to probe neural activity has shaped the understanding of how visual neurons represent information. (plos.org)
In other words, there could be other images that drive visual neurons better than those found so far. (plos.org)
We stress analytical and quantitative approaches to the study of visual receptive fields. (nyu.edu)
Therefore, in the second part of this tutorial, we will implement early receptive fields and explore what spatiotemporal information the visual system is most sensitive to. (ecvp.eu)
Recent results challenge this framework of relatively independent encoding of location and features in the early visual system, emphasizing location-dependent feature sensitivities that reflect specialization of cortical circuits for different locations in visual space. (frontiersin.org)

Instead, recent studies have suggested that sound location may be encoded via broadly responsive neurons whose firing rates vary roughly proportionately with sound azimuth. (duke.edu)
This suggests that neurons within the action distribution of the network are finest off with receptive fields roughly the dimensions of the gameboard. (menphis.info)

These results demonstrate that in area MT, shifting attention into the RFs of neurons in the vicinity of the recording electrode, or to the direction of a moving stimulus located far away from these RFs, distinctively modulates LFP-power in the various frequency bands. (jneurosci.org)
Point of resonance is determined by frequency of sound wave, providing a basis for anatomical encoding of pitch. (powershow.com)
For example, in the auditory system, some neurons receive input from both the inner hair cells, which detect frequency information, and the outer hair cells, which detect amplitude information. (nawafnet.net)

A sensory neuron is a specialized neuron whose primary function is to carry sensory information from the sensory receptors to the central nervous system. (nawafnet.net)

However, the complexity of sensory neurons goes well beyond just their capacity to respond to various stimuli. (nawafnet.net)

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