Burst firing is a neural code in an insect auditory system

Various classes of neurons alternate between high-frequency discharges and silent intervals. This phenomenon is called burst firing. To analyze burst activity in an insect system, grasshopper auditory receptor neurons were recorded in vivo for several distinct stimulus types. The experimental data s...

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Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2008-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/neuro.10.003.2008/full