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SUBMITTER: Friederich U
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4919002 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Friederich Uwe U Billings Stephen A SA Hardie Roger C RC Juusola Mikko M Coca Daniel D
PloS one 20160623 6
More than five decades ago it was postulated that sensory neurons detect and selectively enhance behaviourally relevant features of natural signals. Although we now know that sensory neurons are tuned to efficiently encode natural stimuli, until now it was not clear what statistical features of the stimuli they encode and how. Here we reverse-engineer the neural code of Drosophila photoreceptors and show for the first time that photoreceptors exploit nonlinear dynamics to selectively enhance and ...[more]