Cortical neural populations can guide behavior by integrating inputs linearly, independent of synchrony

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Histed, Mark H ^a   Maunsell, John H R ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Mouse; Neuronal circuits; Optogenetics; Population coding

Indexed keywords

CHANNELRHODOPSIN 2; RHODOPSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; INTEGRATION; LIGHT; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; OPTOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL CORTEX;

MOUSE; NEURONAL CIRCUITS; OPTOGENETICS; POPULATION CODING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RHODOPSIN; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84891912414     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318750111     Document Type: Article

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