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Timing is everything

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Interactions among neurons in brain circuits underlie sensory perception and information storage. Work in locusts shows how the timing of different neuronal signals is synchronized to ensure effective communication.

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Figure 1: Representation of information by oscillating networks in the locust brain.

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  1. Phillip Larimer and Ben W. Strowbridge are in the Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA. bens@case.edu,

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Larimer, P., Strowbridge, B. Timing is everything. Nature 448, 652–653 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/448652a

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