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Selectivity of pyramidal cells and interneurons in the human medial temporal lobe.

This work is the result of a long-term on-going collaboration with UCLA Medical Center and Caltech. It involves the analysis of a unique dataset of single neuron responses recorded for several years in neurosurgical patients implanted with depth electrodes. Previous works have described sparse representations but it was unknown how such representations arose. This paper provides a plausible mechanism underlying the generation of sparse representations in a winner-take-all scheme. Our results are of direct interest to existing efforts towards building realistic neural models, as pursued by major initiatives (such as the EU Human Brain Project and the US BRAIN initiative).