Stochastic transitions into silence cause noise correlations in cortical circuits

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

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 3529-3534

  Mochol, Gabriela ^a,b   Hermoso Mendizabal, Ainhoa ^b   Sakata, Shuzo ^c   Harris, Kenneth D ^d,e   De La Rocha, Jaime ^b  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auditory cortex; Brain state; Neuronal variability; Noise correlations; Stochastic network dynamics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; DENSITY; EVOKED RESPONSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPIKE WAVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MARKOV CHAIN; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

RATTUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; EVOKED POTENTIALS; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NOISE; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84925281987     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1410509112     Document Type: Article

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