Adaptation is fundamental to life. All organisms adapt over timescales that span from
evolution to generations and lifetimes to moment-by-moment interactions. The nervous …

The world is richly structured on multiple spatiotemporal scales. In order to represent spatial
structure, many machine-learning models repeat a set of basic operations at each layer of a …

Neural systems adapt to changes in stimulus statistics. However, it is not known how stimuli
with complex temporal dynamics drive the dynamics of adaptation and the resulting firing …

Sensory systems are known to adapt their coding strategies to the statistics of their
environment, but little is still known about the perceptual implications of such adjustments …

The theory of predictive processing posits that the brain computes expectations to process
information predictively. Empirical evidence in support of this theory, however, is scarce and …

Insects find food and mates by navigating odorant plumes that can be highly intermittent,
with intensities and durations that vary rapidly over orders of magnitude. Much is known …

Understanding how populations of neurons encode information is the challenge faced by
researchers in the field of neural coding. Focusing on the many mysteries and marvels of the …

As information flows through the brain, neuronal firing progresses from encoding the world
as sensed by the animal to driving the motor output of subsequent behavior. One of the more …

The ability to detect unexpected stimuli in the acoustic environment and determine their
behavioral relevance to plan an appropriate reaction is critical for survival. This perspective …

Adaptive processes over many timescales endow neurons with sensitivity to stimulus
changes over a similarly wide range of scales. Although spike timing of single neurons can …