Investigation Of A Multi-cellular Neural Code For Directed Movement

Information coding by populations of neurons involved in initiating and directing the wind-evoked escape response in the cockroach was studied. We show the response profiles of several cell populations and analyze the coding capability of different properties of the responses. Certain features of neural responses from the giant interneuron population give error rates of less than 10% for right versus left wind discrimination, which is more accurate than the apparent behavioral discrimination.

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