Most of our knowledge about the functional organization of neuronal systems is based on
the analysis of the firing patterns of individual neurons that have been recorded one by one …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has rapidly become an important tool in clinical
medicine and biological research. Its functional variant (functional magnetic resonance …

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 …

This text, based on a course taught by Randall O'Reilly and Yuko Munakata over the past
several years, provides an in-depth introduction to the main ideas in the computational …

Information is integrated across the visual field to transform local features into a global
percept. We now know that V1 neurons provide more spatial integration than originally …

The cortical visual system consists of many richly interconnected areas. Each area is
characterized by more or less specific receptive field tuning properties. However, these …

Contrast-dependent changes in spatial summation and contextual modulation of primary
visual cortex (V1) neuron responses to stimulation of their receptive field reveal long …

Perceptual learning is a lifelong process. We begin by encoding information about the basic
structure of the natural world and continue to assimilate information about specific patterns …

Changes in spontaneous activity, recorded over 15-min periods before, immediately after
and within hours after an acute acoustic trauma, were studied in primary auditory cortex of …

Singer, 1994). The basis for this argument is that it is necessary to “tag” each visual neuron
to signify the object to which its activity relates. Each neuron therefore has to carry two …