Analysis of Slow (Theta) Oscillations as a Potential Temporal Reference Frame for Information Coding in Sensory Cortices

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Kayser, Christoph ^a,b   Ince, Robin A A ^a   Panzeri, Stefano ^b,c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^b Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCKS (FASTENERS); NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; SENSORY ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION CODING; NEURAL INFORMATION; REFERENCE FRAME; SENSORY CORTICES; SENSORY NETWORKS; SENSORY NEURONS; SLOW OSCILLATIONS; SPIKE PATTERNS; SPIKE TRAIN; THETA OSCILLATIONS;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

EID: 84868099598     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002717     Document Type: Article

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