Stimulus onset quenches neural variability: A widespread cortical phenomenon

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 369-378

  Churchland, Mark M ^a   Yu, Byron M ^a,b   Cunningham, John P ^a   Sugrue, Leo P ^a,c   Cohen, Marlene R ^a,c   Corrado, Greg S ^a,c   Newsome, William T ^a,c   Clark, Andrew M ^d   Hosseini, Paymon ^d   Scott, Benjamin B ^d   Bradley, David C ^d   Smith, Matthew A ^e   Kohn, Adam ^f,g   Movshon, J Anthony ^g   Armstrong, Katherine M ^a   Moore, Tirin ^a   Chang, Steve W ^h   Snyder, Lawrence H ^h   Lisberger, Stephen G ⁱ   Priebe, Nicholas J ^j   Finn, Ian M ^k   Ferster, David ^k   Ryu, Stephen I ^a   Santhanam, Gopal ^a   Sahani, Maneesh ^b   Shenoy, Krishna V ^a,l   more..

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^k NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l Stanford University   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EXPERIMENTAL CAT; EXPERIMENTAL MONKEY; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; WAKEFULNESS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; CATS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; MACACA FASCICULARIS; MACACA MULATTA; MACACA NEMESTRINA; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 77649187675     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2501     Document Type: Article

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