Evolving Concepts of Sensory Adaptation

Overview

Journal F1000 Biol Rep

Specialty Biology

Date 2012 Nov 29

PMID 23189092

Citations 32

Authors

Michael A Webster

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Abstract

Sensory systems constantly adapt their responses to match the current environment. These adjustments occur at many levels of the system and increasingly appear to calibrate even for highly abstract perceptual representations of the stimulus. The similar effects of adaptation across very different stimulus domains point to common design principles but also continue to raise questions about the purpose of adaptation.

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