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Encoding the Timing of Inhibitory Inputs

¹The Center for Hearing Sciences and ²Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; and ³Departments of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and ⁴Cell and Molecular Physiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Submitted 1 September 2004; accepted in final form 23 December 2004

Many neuronal systems represent information by the timing of individual spikes, and it is generally assumed that spike timing predominantly encodes excitatory inputs. We show here that the timing of inhibition can also be explicitly encoded in spike times using time-dependent and voltage-dependent properties of a rapidly inactivating potassium channel (I_KIF). In vitro recordings in rat dorsal cochlear nucleus show that the effects of inhibition on spike timing can long outlast the duration of the inhibitory potential and that this depends only on the membrane voltage change during the inhibitory postsynaptic potential. Modeling results show that small neuronal populations with a heterogeneous distribution of I_KIF voltage dependence can robustly encode intervals of >100 ms between inhibition and excitation. Thus neuronal systems can detect and represent the precise timing of inhibition, suggesting the importance of inhibition in information encoding.

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