Pings the Body Electric (and Means It Too). Focus on “Interval Coding. I. Burst Interspike Intervals as Indicators of Stimulus Intensity” and “Interval Coding. II. Dendrite-Dependent Mechanisms”

Abstract

Structure/function questions are at the forefront of research in biological sensory systems. These questions are very elegantly addressed by Oswald et al. and Doiron et al. in a pair of articles on signal representation in electric fish in this issue of Journal of Neurophysiology (p. 2731–2743 and