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While “tuned” neurons respond to specific types of visual information – vertical black bars, for example – the firing rates of “untuned neurons” do not appear tied to any specific stimulus. See what Zylberberg and his colleagues found when they began probing the role of untuned neurons in sensory information coding.
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