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Reading dendritic activity with gap junctions

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Patch-clamp recordings and imaging in retina show that electrical synapses between dendrites of neighboring ganglion cells transform spatial patterns of light activated synaptic input into a temporal population code.

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Figure 1: Mechanisms underlying fine-scale correlations in the spiking of electrically coupled retinal ganglion cells.

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  1. Frederic Lanore and R. Angus Silver are in the Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College London, London, UK.,

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