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Recruitment order: a powerful neural ensemble code

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Rapid behavioral response times have been suggested to indicate that the brain may code stimulus properties in terms of the latency of the first action potential evoked by a stimulus. A new study provides the first experimental evidence for this idea.

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Figure 1: Recruitment order coding.

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