Speed-invariant encoding of looming object distance requires power law spike rate adaptation

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Neural representations of a moving object's distance and approach speed are essential for determining appropriate orienting responses, such as those observed in the localization behaviors of the weakly electric fish, Apteronotus leptorhynchus. We demonstrate that a power lawformof spike rate adaptation transforms an electroreceptor afferent's response to looming object motion, effectively parsing information about distance and approach speed into distinct measures of the firing rate. Neurons with dynamics characterized by fixed time scales are shown to confound estimates of object distance and speed. Conversely, power law adaptation modifies an electroreceptor afferent's response according to the time scales present in the stimulus, generating a rate code for looming object distance that is invariant to speed and acceleration. Consequently, estimates of both object distance and approach speed can be uniquely determined from an electroreceptor afferent's firing rate, a multiplexed neural code operating over the extended time scales associated with behaviorally relevant stimuli.

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Clarke, S. E., Naud, R., Longtin, A., & Maler, L. (2013). Speed-invariant encoding of looming object distance requires power law spike rate adaptation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(33), 13624–13629. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1306428110

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