A Behavioral Role for Feature Detection by Sensory Bursts

Brief episodes of high-frequency firing of sensory neurons, or bursts, occur in many systems, including mammalian auditory and visual systems, and are believed to signal the occurrence of particularly important stimulus features, i.e., to function as feature detectors. However, the behavioral relevance of sensory bursts has not been established in any system. Here, we show that bursts in an identified auditory interneuron of crickets reliably signal salient stimulus features and reliably predict behavioral responses. Our results thus demonstrate the close link between sensory bursts and behavior.

• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Journal of Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2006-10-11

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2221-06.2006PMID 17035539PMCID PMC6674688
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