Olfactory Coding: Unusual Conductances Contribute to Sparse Neural Representation. Focus on “Intrinsic Membrane Properties and Inhibitory Synaptic Input of Kenyon Cells as Mechanisms for Sparse Coding?”

Abstract

At the interface of animal and world, neurons transform environmental stimuli into spikes of electrical current known as action potentials. As sensory information makes its way from point to point along neural pathways, the numbers of neurons participating in the response and the numbers of spikes