Adaptation is a common principle that recurs throughout the nervous system at all stages of
processing. This principle manifests in a variety of phenomena, from spike frequency …

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 …

High-frequency" burst" clusters of spikes are a generic output pattern of many neurons.
While bursting is a ubiquitous computational feature of different nervous systems across …

Highlights•Simple models, both statistical and dynamical, can exhibit a variety of adaptive
phenomena without the need for a change in parameters.•More complex models such as …

Sensory systems encounter remarkably diverse stimuli in the external environment. Natural
stimuli exhibit timescales and amplitudes of variation that span a wide range. Mechanisms of …

The way in which single neurons transform input into output spike trains has fundamental
consequences for network coding. Theories and modeling studies based on standard …

Diverse ion channels and their dynamics endow single neurons with complex biophysical
properties. These properties determine the heterogeneity of cell types that make up the …

Summary The FOXP2/Foxp2 gene, linked to fine motor control in vertebrates, is a potential
candidate gene thought to play a prominent role in human language production. It is …

The changes in firing probability produced by a synaptic input are usually visualized using
the poststimulus time histogram (PSTH). It would be useful if postsynaptic firing patterns …

Single neurons can dynamically change the gain of their spiking responses to take into
account shifts in stimulus variance. Moreover, gain adaptation can occur across multiple …