Can optogenetic tools determine the importance of temporal codes to sensory information processing in the brain?
There is no doubt that optogenetic tools caused a paradigm shift in many fields of neuroscience. These tools enable rapid and reversible intervention with a specific neuronal circuit and then the impact on the remaining circuit and/or behavior can be studied. However, so far the ability of these opt...
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| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015-12-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnsys.2015.00174/full |