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11709160

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-11-15
pubmed:abstractText
This study explores the nature of population coding in sensory cortex by applying information theoretic analyses to neuron pairs recorded simultaneously from rat barrel cortex. We quantified the roles of individual spikes and spike patterns in encoding whisker stimulus location. 82%-85% of the total information was contained in the timing of individual spikes: first spike time was particularly crucial. Spike patterns within neurons accounted for the remaining 15%-18%. Neuron pairs located in the same barrel column coded redundantly, whereas pairs in neighboring barrel columns coded independently. The barrel cortical population code for stimulus location appears to be the time of single neurons' first poststimulus spikes-a fast, robust coding mechanism that does not rely on "synergy" in crossneuronal spike patterns.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0896-6273
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
8
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
503-14
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Population coding of stimulus location in rat somatosensory cortex.
pubmed:affiliation
Cognitive Neuroscience Sector, International School for Advanced Studies, Via Beirut 2/4, 34014 Trieste, Italy. petersen@sissa.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't