In addition to the special issue articles, we have asked three leading researchers in software engineering for their perspectives on [email protected]. We include contributions from Betty H.C. Cheng, Anthony Finkelstein, and Bran Selic as sidebars in this guest editors’ introduction. Their insights add significantly to the value of this special issue, and we thank them for their thoughtful contri...

Stimulus-specific adaptation dendritic mechanisms 2 21 Abstract 22 23 Reduced neuronal activation to repetitive stimulation is a common feature of information 24 processing in nervous systems. Such stimulus-specific adaptation (SSA) occurs in many systems, 25 but the underlying neural mechanisms are not well understood. The Neoconocephalus 26 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) TN-1 auditory neuron exh...