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“Yes! We're all individuals!”: redundancy in neuronal circuits

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In the mouse olfactory bulb, cells with common input respond to odors with similar firing rates but with different timing. This suggests that such 'sister' cells make independent and unique connections with local interneurons.

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Figure 1: Redundancy in the circuits of the olfactory bulb.

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