ReviewFrontiers in computational neuroscience2016
Burst Firing in the Electrosensory System of Gymnotiform Weakly Electric Fish: Mechanisms and Functional Roles.
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- Effect of burst spikes on linear and nonlinear signal transmission in spiking neurons.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2025Article
- Ion-channel degeneracy and heterogeneities in the emergence of complex spike bursts in CA3 pyramidal neurons.The Journal of physiology · 2023Article
- Burst and Memory-aware Transformer: capturing temporal heterogeneity.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2023Article
- Simultaneous emulation of synaptic and intrinsic plasticity using a memristive synapse.Nature communications · 2022Article
- The unknown but knowable relationship between Presaccadic Accumulation of activity and Saccade initiation.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2021Article
- Noninvasive neuromagnetic single-trial analysis of human neocortical population spikes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Is Neuromorphic MNIST Neuromorphic? Analyzing the Discriminative Power of Neuromorphic Datasets in the Time Domain.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Article
- Pyramidal Neurons of the Zebrafish Tectum Receive Highly Convergent Input From Torus Longitudinalis.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2021Article
- Serotonergic Modulation of Sensory Neuron Activity and Behavior inFrontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2020Article
- Novel Functions of Feedback in Electrosensory Processing.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2019Article
- Descending pathways generate perception of and neural responses to weak sensory input.PLoS biology · 2018Article
- Motion parallax in electric sensing.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018Article
- Population Coding and Correlated Variability in Electrosensory Pathways.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2018Review
- Neural Coding With Bursts-Current State and Future Perspectives.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2018Review
- SK channel subtypes enable parallel optimized coding of behaviorally relevant stimulus attributes: A review.Channels (Austin, Tex.) · 2017Review
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Abstract
Neurons across sensory systems and organisms often display complex patterns of action potentials in response to sensory input. One example of such a pattern is the tendency of neurons to fire packets of action potentials (i.e., a burst) followed by quiescence. While it is well known that multiple mechanisms can generate bursts of action potentials at both the single-neuron and the network level, the functional role of burst firing in sensory processing is not so well understood to date. Here we provide a comprehensive review of the known mechanisms and functions of burst firing in processing of electrosensory stimuli in gymnotiform weakly electric fish. We also present new evidence from existing data showing that bursts and isolated spikes provide distinct information about stimulus variance. It is likely that these functional roles will be generally applicable to other systems and species.
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