Cortical neurons exhibit tremendous variability in the number and temporal distribution of
spikes in their discharge patterns. Furthermore, this variability appears to be conserved over …

Transmission of information is an important function of cortical neurons, so it is conceivable
that they have evolved to transmit information efficiently, with low noise and high temporal …

The cerebral cortex processes information primarily through changes in the spike rates of
neurons within local ensembles. To evaluate how reliably the average spike rate of a group …

We demonstrate that the information contained in the spike occurrence times of a population
of neurons can be broken up into a series of terms, each reflecting something about …

Fast information transfer in neuronal systems rests on series of action potentials, the spike
trains, conducted along axons. Methods that compare spike trains are crucial for …

Anatomical studies demonstrate that excitatory connections in cortex are not uniformly
distributed across a network but instead exhibit clustering into groups of highly connected …

Cortical circuits work through the generation of coordinated, large-scale activity patterns. In
sensory systems, the onset of a discrete stimulus usually evokes a temporally organized …

Many cortical neurons combine the information ascending and descending the cortical
hierarchy. In the classical view, this information is combined nonlinearly to give rise to a …

In retina and in cortical slice the collective response of spiking neural populations is well
described by “maximum-entropy” models in which only pairs of neurons interact. We asked …

It has been known for> 30 years that neuronal spike trains exhibit correlations, that is, the
occurrence of a spike at one time is not independent of the occurrence of spikes at other …