Effects of stochastic coding on olfactory discrimination in flies and mice.

Sparse coding can improve discrimination of sensory stimuli by reducing overlap between their representations. Two factors, however, can offset sparse coding's benefits: similar sensory stimuli have significant overlap and responses vary across trials. To elucidate the effects of these 2 factor...

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Main Authors: Shyam Srinivasan, Simon Daste, Mehrab N Modi, Glenn C Turner, Alexander Fleischmann, Saket Navlakha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-10-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002206&type=printable