title: The receptive field is dead. Long live the receptive field?
abstract: Advances in experimental techniques, including behavioral paradigms using rich stimuli under closed loop conditions and the interfacing of neural systems with external inputs and outputs, reveal complex dynamics in the neural code and require a revisiting of standard concepts of representation. High-throughput recording and imaging methods along with the ability to observe and control neuronal subpopulations allow increasingly detailed access to the neural circuitry that subserves neural representations and the computations they support. How do we harness theory to build biologically grounded models of complex neural function?
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington, 1705 NE Pacific St., HSB G424, Box 357290, Seattle, WA 98195-7290, USA. Electronic address: fairhall@u.washington.edu.
authors.forename: Adrienne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fairhall
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D009424:Nervous System Physiological Phenomena; D016571:Neural Networks, Computer; D012677:Sensation / Q000502:physiology*