The current review constitutes the first comprehensive look at the possibility that the
mismatch negativity (MMN, the deflection of the auditory ERP/ERF elicited by stimulus …

Adaptation occurs in a variety of forms in all sensory systems, motivating the question: what
is its purpose? A productive approach has been to hypothesize that adaptation helps neural …

Biological networks have so many possible states that exhaustive sampling is impossible.
Successful analysis thus depends on simplifying hypotheses, but experiments on many …

Background We have collected a comprehensive set of multi-unit data on dissociated
cortical cultures. Previous studies of the development of the electrical activity of dissociated …

Neurons in primary auditory cortex (A1) of cats show strong stimulus-specific adaptation
(SSA). In probabilistic settings, in which one stimulus is common and another is rare …

A major goal of neuroscience is to elucidate mechanisms of cortical information processing
and storage. Previous work from our laboratory revealed that propagation of local field …

Cognitive processes depend on synchronization and propagation of electrical activity within
and between neuronal assemblies. In vivo measurements show that the size of individual …

The early stages of the auditory system need to preserve the timing information of sounds in
order to extract the basic features of acoustic stimuli. At the same time, different processes of …

Traditional techniques for investigating cultured neural networks, such as the patch clamp
and multi-electrode array, are limited by:(1) the number of identified cells which can be …

Adaptation is fundamental to life. All organisms adapt over timescales that span from
evolution to generations and lifetimes to moment-by-moment interactions. The nervous …