Sensory adaptation [0.03%]
感觉适应
Barry Wark,Brian Nils Lundstrom,Adrienne Fairhall
Barry Wark
Adaptation occurs in a variety of forms in all sensory systems, motivating the question: what is its purpose? A productive approach has been to hypothesize that adaptation helps neural systems to efficiently encode stimuli whose statistics ...
Jonathan B Fritz,Mounya Elhilali,Stephen V David et al.
Jonathan B Fritz et al.
Some fifty years after the first physiological studies of auditory attention, the field is now ripening, with exciting recent insights into the psychophysics, psychology, and neural basis of auditory attention. Current research seeks to unr...
Johannes C Dahmen,Andrew J King
Johannes C Dahmen
Sensory experience and auditory cortex plasticity are intimately related. This relationship is most striking during infancy when changes in sensory input can have profound effects on the functional organization of the developing cortex. But...
Analyzing the activity of large populations of neurons: how tractable is the problem? [0.03%]
分析大量神经元群体的活动：该问题可被解决吗？
Sheila H Nirenberg,Jonathan D Victor
Sheila H Nirenberg
Understanding how the brain performs computations requires understanding neuronal firing patterns at successive levels of processing-a daunting and seemingly intractable task. Two recent studies have made dramatic progress on this problem b...
The hazards of time [0.03%]
时间的危害
Ac Nobre,A Correa,Jt Coull
Ac Nobre
Temporal expectations are continuously formed and updated, and interact with expectations about other relevant attributes of events, in order to optimise our interaction with unfolding sensory stimulation. In this paper, we will highlight s...
Mammalian pheromone sensing [0.03%]
哺乳动物信息素感知
Frank Zufall,Trese Leinders-Zufall
Frank Zufall
The traditional distinction that the mammalian main olfactory system recognizes general odor molecules and the accessory (vomeronasal) system detects pheromones is no longer valid. The emerging picture is that both systems have considerable...
Tianying Ren,Peter G Gillespie
Tianying Ren
The remarkable sensitivity, frequency selectivity, and nonlinearity of the cochlea have been attributed to the putative 'cochlear amplifier', which consumes metabolic energy to amplify the cochlear mechanical response to sounds. Recent stud...
S Murray Sherman
S Murray Sherman
The lateral geniculate nucleus and pulvinar are examples of two different types of relay: the former is a first order relay, transmitting information from a subcortical source (retina), while the latter is mostly a higher order relay, trans...
From chills to chilis: mechanisms for thermosensation and chemesthesis via thermoTRPs [0.03%]
从寒冷到辣椒：经由热敏阳离子通道的冷暖与化学感觉机制
Michael Bandell,Lindsey J Macpherson,Ardem Patapoutian
Michael Bandell
Six highly temperature-sensitive ion channels of the transient receptor potential (TRP) family have been implicated to mediate temperature sensation. These channels, expressed in sensory neurons innervating the skin or the skin itself, are ...
Gabriel Kreiman
Gabriel Kreiman
Research on the visual system focuses on using electrophysiology, pharmacology and other invasive tools in animal models. Non-invasive tools such as scalp electroencephalography and imaging allow examining humans but show a much lower spati...