This paper surveys recent findings in neuroscience regarding the behavioral relevancy of
the precise timing with which real spiking neurons emit spikes. The literature suggests that in …

The processes of attention and working memory are conspicuously interlinked, suggesting
that they may involve overlapping neural mechanisms. Working memory (WM) is the ability …

Neocortical assemblies produce complex activity patterns both in response to sensory
stimuli and spontaneously without sensory input. To investigate the structure of these …

Background Information theory is an increasingly popular framework for studying how the
brain encodes sensory information. Despite its widespread use for the analysis of spike …

The subject of neural coding has generated much debate. A key issue is whether the
nervous system uses coarse or fine coding. Each has different strengths and weaknesses …

Neural activity and perception are both affected by sensory history. The work presented here
explores the relationship between the physiological effects of adaptation and their …

The role of the primate prefrontal cortex (PFC) in conscious perception is debated. The
global neuronal workspace theory of consciousness predicts that PFC neurons should …

Understanding how populations of neurons encode information is the challenge faced by
researchers in the field of neural coding. Focusing on the many mysteries and marvels of the …

Attention is a means of flexibly selecting and enhancing a subset of sensory input based on
the current behavioral goals. Numerous signatures of attention have been identified …

Neurons in the visual system respond to different visual stimuli with different onset latencies.
However, it has remained unknown which stimulus features, aside from stimulus contrast …