Bursts and isolated spikes code for opposite movement directions in midbrain electrosensory neurons.

Directional selectivity, in which neurons respond strongly to an object moving in a given direction but weakly or not at all to the same object moving in the opposite direction, is a crucial computation that is thought to provide a neural correlate of motion perception. However, directional selectiv...

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Main Authors: Navid Khosravi-Hashemi, Maurice J Chacron
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22768279/?tool=EBI