Efficient population coding of naturalistic whisker motion in the ventro-posterior medial thalamus based on precise spike timing

Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Volumn 9, Issue September, 2015, Pages

  Bale, Michael R ^a,b,c   Ince, Robin A A ^b,d   Santagata, Greta ^b   Petersen, Rasmus S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE NEUROCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information theory; Neural coding; Somatosensory; Synchrony; Vibrissa; VPM

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CODING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DYNAMIC SYNCHRONY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FIRING RATE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MUTUAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS; NATURALISTIC WHISKER MOTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM POTENTIAL; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION CODING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RESPONSE; POPULATION SIZE; RAT; SPIKE TAMING; SPIKE WAVE; THALAMUS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VENTROPOSTERIOR MEDIAL THALAMUS BARRELOID; WHITE NOISE; ANIMAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS; VIBRISSA; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MALE; MOVEMENT; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; VENTRAL THALAMIC NUCLEI; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 84942852946     PISSN: 16625110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fncir.2015.00050     Document Type: Article

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