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ReviewMolecular neurobiology2003

Natural patterns of neural activity: how physiological mechanisms are orchestrated to cope with real life.

Rafael Kurtz, Martin Egelhaaf

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Review in Molecular neurobiology, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 46% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Statistics of the electrosensory input in the freely swimming weakly electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2013
    Article
  2. Pedal neuron 3 serves a significant role in effecting turning during crawling by the marine slug Tritonia diomedea (Bergh).Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2005
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rafael KurtzLehrstuhl für Neurobiologie, Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Bielefeld, Germany. rafael.kurtz@uni-bielefeld.de
Martin Egelhaaf
Bielefeld University · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physiological mechanisms of neuronal information processing have been shaped during evolution by a continual interplay between organisms and their sensory surroundings. Thus, when asking for the functional significance of such mechanisms, the natural conditions under which they operate must be considered. This has been done successfully in several studies that employ sensory stimulation under in vivo conditions. These studies address the question of how physiological mechanisms within neurons are properly adjusted to the characteristics of natural stimuli and to the demands imposed on the system being studied. Results from diverse animal models show how neurons exploit natural stimulus statistics efficiently by utilizing specific filtering capacities. Mechanisms that allow neurons to adapt to the currently relevant range from an often immense stimulus spectrum are outlined, and examples are provided that suggest that information transfer between neurons is shaped by the system-specific computational tasks in the behavioral context.

Indexed as

Action PotentialsAdaptation, PhysiologicalAnimalsCentral Nervous SystemMechanoreceptorsModels, AnimalNeurons, AfferentPhotoreceptor Cells, InvertebrateSignal TransductionSynaptic Transmission

Identifiers

PMID12668900
OpenAlexW2017961406

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