Sensory Coding and Vision Flashcards

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Recording method that can measure membrane potentials

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Intracellular recording

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Type of recording that involves inserting an electrode in an animal’s head

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Electrophysiological recording

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Type of recording that does not involve an electrode, includes Calcium imaging

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Optical Recording

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Molecule that lights up once binded to calcium

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Calcium indicator

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The region of sensory space in which a stimulus will modify that firing of a neuron

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Receptive Field

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Information coded by a spike rate

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Rate code

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Information coded by spike timing

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Temporal code

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That theory that touch information from adjacent parts of the body are represented in adjacent parts of the cortex

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Cortical map

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The electric potential recorded in the extracellular space in brain tissue

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Local Field Potential

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