A neural mechanism for time-window separation resolves ambiguity of adaptive coding.

The senses of animals are confronted with changing environments and different contexts. Neural adaptation is one important tool to adjust sensitivity to varying intensity ranges. For instance, in a quiet night outdoors, our hearing is more sensitive than when we are confronted with the plurality of...

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Main Authors: K Jannis Hildebrandt, Bernhard Ronacher, R Matthias Hennig, Jan Benda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-03-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4356587?pdf=render