title: Sensory neural codes using multiplexed temporal scales.
abstract: Determining how neuronal activity represents sensory information is central for understanding perception. Recent work shows that neural responses at different timescales can encode different stimulus attributes, resulting in a temporal multiplexing of sensory information. Multiplexing increases the encoding capacity of neural responses, enables disambiguation of stimuli that cannot be discriminated at a single response timescale, and makes sensory representations stable to the presence of variability in the sensory world. Thus, as we discuss here, temporal multiplexing could be a key strategy used by the brain to form an information-rich and stable representation of the environment.
authors.affiliation: Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department, Italian Institute of Technology, Via Morego 30, 16163 Genova, Italy. stefano.panzeri@iit.it
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Panzeri
authors.forename: Nicolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Brunel
authors.forename: Nikos K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Logothetis
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kayser
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D006801:Humans; D007257:Information Theory; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology*; D011984:Sensory Receptor Cells / Q000502:physiology*; D013998:Time Perception / Q000502:physiology*