Efficient Olfactory Coding in the Pheromone Receptor Neuron of a Moth

The concept of coding efficiency holds that sensory neurons are adapted, through both evolutionary and developmental processes, to the statistical characteristics of their natural stimulus. Encouraged by the successful invocation of this principle to predict how neurons encode natural auditory and v...

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Main Authors: Kostal, Lubomir, Lansky, Petr, Rospars, Jean-Pierre
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2008
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2291565/