Does the brain use a firing rate code or a spike timing code? Considering this controversial
question from an epistemological perspective, I argue that progress has been hampered by …

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 …

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 …

Recent experimental reports have suggested that cortical networks can operate in regimes
were sensory information is encoded by relatively small populations of spikes and their …

Frequency-specific patterns of neural activity are increasingly interpreted as transient bursts
of isolated events rather than as rhythmically sustained oscillations. This has potentially far …

Many theories of perception are anchored in the central notion that the brain continuously
updates an internal model of the world to infer the probable causes of sensory events. In this …

In the cortex, the timing of successive action potentials is highly irregular. The interpretation
of this irregularity has led to two divergent views of cortical organization. On the one hand …

Does rhythmic neural activity merely echo the rhythmic features of the environment, or does
it reflect a fundamental computational mechanism of the brain? This debate has generated a …

Neuronal action potentials or spikes provide a long-range, noise-resistant means of
communication between neurons. As point processes single spikes contain little information …

Neuronal responses are conspicuously variable. We focus on one particular aspect of that
variability: the precision of action potential timing. We show that for common models of noisy …