Stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory thalamus of the anesthetized rat.

The specific adaptation of neuronal responses to a repeated stimulus (Stimulus-specific adaptation, SSA), which does not fully generalize to other stimuli, provides a mechanism for emphasizing rare and potentially interesting sensory events. Previous studies have demonstrated that neurons in the aud...

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Main Authors: Flora M Antunes, Israel Nelken, Ellen Covey, Manuel S Malmierca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-11-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2988819?pdf=render