Determining how neuronal activity represents sensory information is central for
understanding perception. Recent work shows that neural responses at different timescales …

Adaptation occurs in a variety of forms in all sensory systems, motivating the question: what
is its purpose? A productive approach has been to hypothesize that adaptation helps neural …

Neural systems adapt to changes in stimulus statistics. However, it is not known how stimuli
with complex temporal dynamics drive the dynamics of adaptation and the resulting firing …

Adaptation is an essential feature of auditory neurons, which reduces their responses to
unchanging and recurring sounds and allows their response properties to be matched to the …

The term visual adaptation describes the processes by which the visual system alters its
operating properties in response to changes in the environment. These continual …

Life depends as much on the flow of information as on the flow of energy. Here we review
the many efforts to make this intuition precise. Starting with the building blocks of information …

Spike-frequency adaptation (SFA) is widespread in the CNS, but its function remains
unclear. In neocortical pyramidal neurons, adaptation manifests itself by an increase in the …

Adaptation is fundamental to life. All organisms adapt over timescales that span from
evolution to generations and lifetimes to moment-by-moment interactions. The nervous …

Adaptation is a common principle that recurs throughout the nervous system at all stages of
processing. This principle manifests in a variety of phenomena, from spike frequency …

Sensory systems exhibit mechanisms of neural adaptation, which adjust neuronal activity on
the basis of recent stimulus history. In primary visual cortex (V1) in particular, adaptation …