Spiking models for level-invariant encoding

Levels of ecological sounds vary over several orders of magnitude,but the firing rate and membrane potential of a neuron are much more limited in range.In binaural neurons of the barn owl, tuning to interaural delays is independent oflevel differences. Yet a monaural neuron with a fixed threshold sh...

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Main Author: Romain eBrette
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fncom.2011.00063/full