On the structure of neuronal population activity under fluctuations in attentional state

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 1775-1789

  Ecker, Alexander S ^a,b,c,d   Denfield, George H ^b   Bethge, Matthias ^a,c,d   Tolias, Andreas S ^b,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CYBERNETICS   (Germany)

^e Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Gain modulation; Noise correlation; Population coding; Variability

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRING RATE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROMODULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPIKE WAVE; ACTION POTENTIAL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ATTENTION; HUMANS; NEURONS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84957812639     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2044-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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