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 …

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 …

Cortical circuitry must facilitate information transfer in accordance with a neural code. In this
article we examine two candidate neural codes: information is represented in the spike rate …

Cortical neurons show irregular but structured spike trains. This has been interpreted as
evidence for'temporal coding', whereby stimuli are represented by precise spike-timing …

Neuronal populations in sensory cortex represent time-changing sensory input through a
spatiotemporal code. What are the rules that govern this code? We measured membrane …

The brain processes information about sensory stimuli and motor intentions using a massive
ensemble of neurons arrayed in parallel. Individual neurons receive convergent inputs from …

Neural coding has traditionally been examined through changes in firing rates and latencies
in response to different stimuli,,,–. However, populations of neurons can also exhibit …

Although temporal coding is a frequent topic of neurophysiology research, trial-to-trial
variability in temporal codes is typically dismissed as noise and thought to play no role in …

In the CNS, activity of individual neurons has a small but quantifiable relationship to sensory
representations and motor outputs. Coactivation of a few 10s to 100s of neurons can code …