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Published December 20, 2005 | Published
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Neurons of the cerebral cortex exhibit precise interspike timing in correspondence to behavior

Abstract

We show that times of spikes can be very precise. In the cerebral cortex, where each nerve cell is affected by thousands of others, it is the common belief that the exact time of a spike is random up to an averaged firing rate over tens of milliseconds. in a brain slice, precise time relations of several neurons have been observed. It remained unclear whether this phenomenon can also be observed in brains of behaving animals. Here we show, in behaving monkeys, that time intervals between spikes, measured in correspondence to a specific behavior, may be controlled to within the milliseconds range.

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© 2005 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA. Communicated by Hyman Bass, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, October 28, 2005 (received for review February 7, 2005). Published online before print December 9, 2005, 10.1073/pnas.0509346102. This work was supported in part by grants from the Israel Science Foundation, the German–Israel Foundation, the Deutsch–Israelische Projectkooperation, the Horowitz Fund, and the RICH center. M.A. is a Shamoon professor at Bar-Ilan University.

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