Synchronous Spikes Are More Effective (but Not for Long)

Adrian Bondy; Bruce Cumming

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.08.011

Synchronous Spikes Are More Effective (but Not for Long)

Neuron. 2015 Aug 19;87(4):676-8. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.08.011.

Authors

Adrian Bondy¹, Bruce Cumming²

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, 49 Convent Drive, 2A50 Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Brown-NIH Neuroscience Graduate Partnership Program, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. Electronic address: adrian.bondy@gmail.com.
² Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, 49 Convent Drive, 2A50 Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

PMID: 26291152
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.08.011

Abstract

The efficacy of spiking synchrony in corticocortical communication is poorly understood. A new study (Zandvakili and Kohn, 2015) in this issue provides compelling evidence that synchrony in a source population is not efficacious beyond the input layers of the target population.

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MeSH terms

Action Potentials / physiology*
Animals
Brain Mapping / methods*
Male
Neurons / physiology*
Photic Stimulation / methods*
Visual Cortex / physiology*
Visual Pathways / physiology*