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“The sensory-triggered activity of a neuron is typically characterized in terms of a tuning curve, which describes the neuron’s average response as a function of a parameter that characterizes a physical stimulus. What determines the shapes of tuning curves in a neuronal population?”
![Optimal Tuning Curves for Four Classes of Downstream Functions](http://biology.plosjournals.org/archive/1545-7885/4/12/figure/10.1371_journal.pbio.0040387.g002-M.jpg)
by Emilio Salinas
Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA