Neural codes often seem tailored to the type of information they must carry. Here we contrast
the encoding strategies for two different communication signals in electric fish and describe …

… Marsat and Pollack examined explicitly the relationships between bursts or isolated spikes
and behavior (see Figure 3). They showed that avoidance steering was triggered only by …

Efficient sensory coding implies that populations of neurons should represent information-rich
aspects of a signal with little redundancy. Recent studies have shown that neural …

Brief episodes of high-frequency firing of sensory neurons, or bursts, occur in many systems,
including mammalian auditory and visual systems, and are believed to signal the …

It is an important task in neuroscience to find general principles that relate neural codes to
the structure of the signals they encode. The structure of sensory signals can be described in …

… inhibitory synapse (GABA A receptors) is near the SP cell's resting potential (Berman and
Maler, 1998b), so inhibition was modeled as a constant membrane conductance increase, g. …

The omega neuron 1 (ON1) of the cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus responds to conspecific
signals (4.5 kHz) and to the ultrasonic echolocation sounds used by hunting, insectivorous bats…

… The authors would like to thank Dr Len Maler for his assistance and resources for a pilot
study related to this study and Drs Andrew Dacks and G. Troy Smith for helpful comments on the …

We studied the temporal coding properties of identified interneurons in the auditory system
of crickets, using information theory as an analytical tool. The ascending neuron 1 (AN1), …

To interact with the environment efficiently, the nervous system must generate expectations
about redundant sensory signals and detect unexpected ones. Neural circuits can, for …