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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Main Authors: Margot C Bjoring, C Daniel Meliza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6366721?pdf=render