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Published June 2000 | Submitted
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Model-free detection of synchrony in neuronal spike trains, with an application to primate somatosensory cortex

Abstract

Synchronized neuronal firing has been reported in many neural systems and may play a role in the representation of sensory stimuli and the modification of sensory representations by both experience and attention. In this report we describe a bootstrap procedure for computing the statistical significance of changes in the degree of synchrony and apply it to recordings from the second somatosensory (SII) cortex of Macaques performing tactile and visual discrimination tasks. A majority (68%) of neuron pairs in SII fire synchronously in response to a tactile stimulus. In a fraction of those pairs (17.5%), the degree of synchrony covaries with the focus of attention.

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Copyright © 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. Accepted 13 January 2000. Available online 13 June 2000. We thank Steve Hsiao and Paul Fitzgerald for the data used in this work and acknowledge support by NSF and the Sloan Foundation.

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