A low-threshold potassium current enhances sparseness and reliability in a model of avian auditory cortex.
Birdsong is a complex vocal communication signal, and like humans, birds need to discriminate between similar sequences of sound with different meanings. The caudal mesopallium (CM) is a cortical-level auditory area implicated in song discrimination. CM neurons respond sparsely to conspecific song a...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6366721?pdf=render |