Tuning and spontaneous spike time synchrony share a common structure in macaque inferior temporal cortex

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 856-869

  Lin, Chia Pei ^a,c   Chen, Yueh Peng ^a   Hung, Chou P ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Multielectrode array; Object representation; Population coding; Spike correlations; Visual object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SEPARATION; CLASSIFIER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; ELECTRODE; INFERIOR TEMPORAL CORTEX; MACACA; MUSCLE RELAXATION; NEUROLEPTANESTHESIA; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIKE; STIMULUS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MACACA; NEURONS; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84906078474     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00485.2013     Document Type: Article

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