The fundamental building block of every nervous system is the single neuron. Understanding
how these exquisitely structured elements operate is an integral part of the quest to solve …

Computational neuroscience has contributed significantly to our understanding of higher
brain function by combining experimental neurobiology, psychophysics, modeling, and …

… Andreas VM Herz a.herz@biologie.hu-berlin.de Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt
… currents (Benda, Bethge, Hennig, Pawelzik, & Herz, 2001). This is particularly true if these …

Sensory systems extract behaviorally relevant information from a continuous stream of
complex high-dimensional input signals. Understanding the detailed dynamics and precise …

Driven systems of interconnected blocks with stick-slip friction capture main features of
earthquake processes. The microscopic dynamics closely resemble those of spiking nerve cells. …

Neurones generate intrinsic subthreshold membrane potential oscillations (MPOs) under
various physiological and behavioural conditions. These oscillations influence neural …

Rodents use two distinct neuronal coordinate systems to estimate their position: place fields
in the hippocampus and grid fields in the entorhinal cortex. Whereas place cells spike at …

Mammalian grid cells fire when an animal crosses the points of an imaginary hexagonal grid
tessellating the environment. We show how animals can navigate by reading out a simple …

Despite their simple auditory systems, some insect species recognize certain temporal
aspects of acoustic stimuli with an acuity equal to that of vertebrates; however, the underlying …

According to Barlow's seminal "efficient coding hypothesis," the coding strategy of sensory
neurons should be matched to the statistics of stimuli that occur in an animal's natural habitat. …