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Cortical adaptation and tactile perception

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Cortical neurons reduce spiking responses to repetitive sensory stimulation, but the perceptual impact of this adaptation has been difficult to assess. Work now shows that it has profound consequences for tactile perception.

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Figure 1: Adaptation decreases the amplitude of cortical responses but leaves their periodicity mostly intact.

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  1. Hongdian Yang and Daniel H. O'Connor are in the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience & Brain Science Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,

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Yang, H., O'Connor, D. Cortical adaptation and tactile perception. Nat Neurosci 17, 1434–1436 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3847

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