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ReviewCurrent biology : CB2014

Moving sensory adaptation beyond suppressive effects in single neurons.

Samuel G Solomon, Adam Kohn

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Review in Current biology : CB, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 120 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
120citing papers in PubMed
8.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

120 citing papers in PubMed, 270 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Adaptation with Naturalistic Textures in Macaque V1 and V2.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  14. Recent Visual Experience Reshapes V4 Neuronal Activity and Improves Perceptual Performance.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Samuel G SolomonInstitute for Behavioural Neuroscience, University College London, London, UK; Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, UK. Electronic address: s.solomon@ucl.ac.uk.
Adam KohnDominick Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. Electronic address: adam.kohn@einstein.yu.edu.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USUniversity College London · GB

Funding

Visual Cortical AdaptationR01EY016774 · NEI · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI KOHN, ADAM · 2008 to 2017
$3.7M
CRCNS: Spatiotemporal Scene Statistics and Contextual Influences in VisionR01EY021371 · NEI · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI KOHN, ADAM, SCHWARTZ, ODELIA · 2010 to 2013
$1.1M
NEI NIH HHS EY016774NEI NIH HHS EY021371NEI NIH HHS R01 EY016774NEI NIH HHS R01 EY021371
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

How an object is perceived depends on the temporal context in which it is encountered. Sensory signals in the brain also depend on temporal context, a phenomenon often referred to as adaptation. Traditional descriptions of adaptation effects emphasize various forms of response fatigue in single neurons, which grow in strength with exposure to a stimulus. Recent work on vision, and other sensory modalities, has shown that this description has substantial shortcomings. Here we review our emerging understanding of how adaptation alters the balance between excitatory and suppressive signals, how effects depend on adaptation duration, and how adaptation influences representations that are distributed within and across multiple brain structures. This work points to a sophisticated set of mechanisms for adjusting to recent sensory experience, and suggests new avenues for understanding their function.

Indexed as

Adaptation, PhysiologicalAnimalsNeuronsVisual Cortex

Identifiers

PMID25442850
PMCPMC4279707
OpenAlexW2161336407

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Registered trials

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