Rhythmic auditory cortex activity at multiple timescales shapes stimulus–response gain and background firing

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 7750-7762

  Kayser, Christoph ^a   Wilson, Caroline ^b   Safaai, Houman ^c   Sakata, Shuzo ^b   Panzeri, Stefano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Delta rhythm; Information coding; LNP models; Network state; Neural coding; Receptive fields

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LOCAL FIELD POTENTIAL; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DELTA RHYTHM; HEARING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY CORTEX; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; DELTA RHYTHM; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84929692619     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0268-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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