Adaptability is an essential property of many sensory systems, enabling maintenance of a sensitive response over a range of background stimulus levels.
We hope out experiment provides a critical insight into the functional relevance of a temporal code, a hotly-debated issue in many sensory systems.
This form of negative feedback was later shown to take place in the vertebrate eye, including the human eye, and has since been found in many sensory systems as a way, for example, to sharpen the discrimination of pitch or touch.
Meanwhile, the cerebellum receives input from many sensory systems and many other parts of the brain as well as spinal cord; and integrates these inputs to fine-tune motor activity [35].
When on a tether, many sensory systems, such as the eyes, antennae, ocelli, and halteres, are not receiving the information they would in forward flight, deficits which might collectively trigger a reaction to accelerate forward by pitching downward to reorient the mean flight force vector [8].
In many sensory systems, when stimulus intensity, contrast or velocity values are mapped against these variables, adaptation dynamics of neural spike patterns can be successfully mimicked with simple linear-nonlinear (LN) models, e.g. a temporal filter followed by a static transfer function.
Like in many other sensory systems, so-called prereceptor mechanisms exist, which passively improve the sensory signals in such a way that the signal carrier is optimized for the extraction of relevant sensory information.
Instead, the skin contains many different sensory systems.
Many of the sensory systems are distinguished by 1b promoter-specific staining.
Echolocation is used for orientation in space, and by many bats as the main sensory system for detection and localization of food [4].
Thus, sensory adaptation allows extension of the dynamic range of sensory systems to many orders of magnitude.
