… of the brain are matched to the signals to which they are exposed (… According to this hypothesis,
adaptation serves to maintain … to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the …

… is thought to be employed by diverse sensory systems is to … analogous to face selectivity in
the visual system or selectivity to … Here we review the recent progress that begins to probe the …

… to understand how the brain works is to describe the function of each of its neurons. In sensory
systems, to describe a neuron's function means to … to novel stimuli. Ultimately, the goal is …

… In the cat primary visual cortex we compare responses to natural inputs with those to noise
inputs matched for luminance and contrast. We find that neural filters adaptively change with …

… obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to … to spend an afternoon,
we may choose to read a book in a coffee shop or go to a shopping mall, which gives rise to a …

… p A is set very close to 1, it gradually decreased to zero. We found that allowing the
probability to decrease during the search causes the local search to consistently end abruptly at …

… This technique is particularly well suited to our data because it can be applied to any number
of neurons and any number of nominal categories (ie, motifs). Figure 5 depicts the optimal …

… which a neuron is sensitive, we computed STAs and MIDs to compare the two approaches
to estimating auditory receptive field models (Figure 3, each row represents one neuron). …

… Laminar differences were also evident in the degree of feature selectivity, which expresses
how similar a stimulus has to be to the averaged preevent ensemble to produce an action …

… If those neurons that showed variation in their response pattern across locations did so
due to noise in their estimates (ie, due to low firing rates or fewer trial repeats), then we would …