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Neuronal coding of temporal stimulus features can occur by means of delay lines. Given that neuronal activity is conducted through many parallel axons, there has to be a mechanism guaranteeing minimal temporal dispersion. We argue that plastic changes in synaptic transmission that are unspecifically propagated along presynaptic axons are a basis for the development of delay-line topologies. Furthermore, we show how two populations of afferents form a map of interaural time differences as found, for instance, in the laminar nucleus of the barn owl.
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Received: 28 June 2002 / Accepted: 9 July 2002
Acknowledgements. The authors thank Richard Kempter and Hermann Wagner for a most enjoyable collaboration on understanding of how temporal maps can be realized through AMSL. C.L. is partially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, grant no. KL 608/10-3 and HE 3252/1-3 (FG Hörobjekte).
Correspondence to: J.L. van Hemmen (e-mail: lvh@ph.tum.de)
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Leibold, C., van Hemmen, J. Mapping time. Biol Cybern 87, 428–439 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-002-0354-x
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