Neurons with stereotyped and rapid responses provide a reference frame for relative temporal coding in primate auditory cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2998-3008

  Brasselet, Romain ^a,b   Panzeri, Stefano ^b,c   Logothetis, Nikos K ^a,b,d   Kayser, Christoph ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED RESPONSE; LATENT PERIOD; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE WAVE; STEREOTYPY; TEMPORAL CODING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; NEURONS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84857528679     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5435-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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