Complementary contributions of spike timing and spike rate to perceptual decisions in rat S1 and S2 cortex

Current Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 357-363

  Zuo, Yanfang ^a,d   Safaai, Houman ^b   Notaro, Giuseppe ^c   Mazzoni, Alberto ^b   Panzeri, Stefano ^b   Diamond, Mathew E ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^c CENTER OF ADVANCED EUROPEAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH CAESAR   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RATTUS;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DECISION MAKING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME; TOUCH; VIBRISSA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DECISION MAKING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TIME FACTORS; TOUCH PERCEPTION; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84922811852     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.065     Document Type: Article

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