Multiplicative computation in a visual neuron sensitive to looming. Gabbiani, F., Krapp, H. G, Koch, C., & Laurent, G. Nature, 420(6913):320-4, 2002.
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Multiplicative operations are important in sensory processing, but their biophysical implementation remains largely unknown. We investigated an identified neuron (the lobula giant movement detector, LGMD, of locusts) whose output firing rate in response to looming visual stimuli has been described by two models, one of which involves a multiplication. In this model, the LGMD multiplies postsynaptically two inputs (one excitatory, one inhibitory) that converge onto its dendritic tree; in the other model, inhibition is presynaptic to the LGMD. By using selective activation and inactivation of pre- and postsynaptic inhibition, we show that postsynaptic inhibition has a predominant role, suggesting that multiplication is implemented within the neuron itself. Our pharmacological experiments and measurements of firing rate versus membrane potential also reveal that sodium channels act both to advance the response of the LGMD in time and to map membrane potential to firing rate in a nearly exponential manner. These results are consistent with an implementation of multiplication based on dendritic subtraction of two converging inputs encoded logarithmically, followed by exponentiation through active membrane conductances.
@Article{Gabbiani-Multiply,
  author   = {Fabrizio Gabbiani and Holger G Krapp and Christof Koch and Gilles Laurent},
  journal  = {Nature},
  title    = {Multiplicative computation in a visual neuron sensitive to looming.},
  year     = {2002},
  number   = {6913},
  pages    = {320-4},
  volume   = {420},
  abstract = {Multiplicative operations are important in sensory processing, but
	their biophysical implementation remains largely unknown. We investigated
	an identified neuron (the lobula giant movement detector, LGMD, of
	locusts) whose output firing rate in response to looming visual stimuli
	has been described by two models, one of which involves a multiplication.
	In this model, the LGMD multiplies postsynaptically two inputs (one
	excitatory, one inhibitory) that converge onto its dendritic tree;
	in the other model, inhibition is presynaptic to the LGMD. By using
	selective activation and inactivation of pre- and postsynaptic inhibition,
	we show that postsynaptic inhibition has a predominant role, suggesting
	that multiplication is implemented within the neuron itself. Our
	pharmacological experiments and measurements of firing rate versus
	membrane potential also reveal that sodium channels act both to advance
	the response of the LGMD in time and to map membrane potential to
	firing rate in a nearly exponential manner. These results are consistent
	with an implementation of multiplication based on dendritic subtraction
	of two converging inputs encoded logarithmically, followed by exponentiation
	through active membrane conductances.},
  doi      = {10.1038/nature01190},
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