Temporal Map Formation in the Barn Owl’s Brain

Leibold, Christian ; Kempter, Richard and Hemmen, Jan Leo van (10. December 2001): Temporal Map Formation in the Barn Owl’s Brain. In: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 87, No. 24: p. 248101

Abstract

Barn owls provide an experimentally well-specified example of a temporal map, a neuronal representation of the outside world in the brain by means of time. Their laminar nucleus exhibits a place code of interaural time differences, a cue which is used to determine the azimuthal location of a sound stimulus, e.g., prey. We analyze a model of synaptic plasticity that explains the formation of such a representation in the young bird and show how in a large parameter regime a combination of local and nonlocal synaptic plasticity yields the temporal map as found experimentally. Our analysis includes the effect of nonlinearities as well as the influence of neuronal noise.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Form of publication: Publisher's Version
• Faculties: Biology > Department Biology II > Neurobiology
• Subjects: 500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
• ISSN: 1079-7114
• Annotation: © 2001 The American Physical Society
• Language: English