Ethological variability shapes the structure and content of sensory population codes
Established theories of sensory coding posit that sensory systems are adapted to the statistics of natural stimuli that originate in the external environment. In natural, ethological conditions, however, sensory populations are simultaneously influenced by multiple modulatory processes. During behavior, the statistics of population responses already at the sensory periphery reflect not only…
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