Firing patterns

In sensory systems, stimuli are represented through the diverse firing responses and receptive fields of neurons. These features emerge from the interaction between excitatory (E) and inhibitory (I) neuron populations within the network. Changes in sensory inputs alter this balance, leading to shifts in firing patterns and the input-output properties of individual neurons and the network. While these phenomena have been studied extensively with experiments and theory, the underlying principles for combining E and I inputs are still unclear. Here, the rules for probabilistically combining E and

…found that FC neurons exhibit unique firing patterns and dendritic architectures, which are distinct from principal cell po

…have highlighted its remarkably stable firing patterns (Mizuseki et al., 2013). How plasticity updates networks maintaining their dynamics remains an open question, largely due to a lack of experimental access points into network stability. Development may provide one such access point. We previously showed that CA1 pyramidal neurons of the same embryonic birthdate exhibit prominent cofiring across different brain states and overlapping place tuning during behavior (Author et al.,