Olfactory Coding: Unusual Conductances Contribute to Sparse Neural 2 Representations. 3 4 Focus on " Intrinsic Membrane Properties and Inhibitory Synaptic Input of 5 Kenyon Cells as Mechanisms for Sparse Coding? " 6 7 8

1 Olfactory coding: Unusual conductances contribute to sparse neural 2 representations. 3 4 Focus on “Intrinsic Membrane Properties and Inhibitory Synaptic Input of 5 Kenyon Cells as Mechanisms for Sparse Coding?” 6 7 8 Rose C. Ong and Mark Stopfer 9 10 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, US National Institutes 11 of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and Department of Biochemistry, The Chinese 12 University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong SAR, China. 13 14 15 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (November 11, 2009). doi:10.1152/jn.00330.2009