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In the mouse olfactory bulb, cells with common input respond to odors with similar firing rates but with different timing. This suggests that such 'sister' cells make independent and unique connections with local interneurons.

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Figure 1: Redundancy in the circuits of the olfactory bulb.

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  1. Timothy E. Holy is in the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,

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Holy, T. “Yes! We're all individuals!”: redundancy in neuronal circuits. Nat Neurosci 13, 1306–1307 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1110-1306

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