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Coding the temporal structure of sounds in auditory cortex

Auditory cortex in anesthetized animals responds poorly to rapid stimulus trains. In awake marmosets, rapidly repeating sounds are now shown to be represented by a rate code.

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Figure 1: Responses to click stimuli of hypothetical synchronized and non-synchronized auditory cortex neurons in the study of Lu and colleagues5.
Figure 2: Amount of stimulus-related information of two neurons in rat somatosensory cortex, estimated using information theoretical measures under the assumption that the neuron uses either a rate or a spike timing code.

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Moore, D., Schnupp, J. & King, A. Coding the temporal structure of sounds in auditory cortex. Nat Neurosci 4, 1055–1056 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1101-1055

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