The inner life of bursts.
In the thalamus, bursts and single spikes are elicited by distinct visual stimuli, suggesting distinct visual functions. In this issue of Neuron, Wang et al. make use of intracellular recordings of thalamic neurons in vivo to provide a clear, detailed explanation of how natural stimuli are converted into a neural code that uses both bursts and single spikes.
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Division of Biology, Neurobiology Section, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA. reinagel@biomail.ucsd.edu
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