Synchronous rhythms represent a core mechanism for sculpting temporal coordination of
neural activity in the brain-wide network. This review focuses on oscillations in the cerebral …

According to Bayesian theories in psychology and neuroscience, minds and brains are
(near) optimal in solving a wide range of tasks. We challenge this view and argue that more …

Responses of sensory neurons differ across repeated measurements. This variability is
usually treated as stochasticity arising within neurons or neural circuits. However, some …

Spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP) is a learning rule that modifies synaptic strength as
a function of the relative timing of pre-and postsynaptic spikes. When a neuron is repeatedly …

Sensory stimuli are encoded differently across cortical layers and it is unknown how
response characteristics relate to the morphological identity of responding cells. We …

It has been empirically established that the cerebral cortical areas defined by Brodmann one
hundred years ago solely on the basis of cellular organization are closely correlated to their …

Cortical areas differ in their patterns of connectivity, cellular composition, and functional
architecture. Spike trains, on the other hand, are commonly assumed to follow similarly …

We propose a method for the time-resolved joint analysis of two related aspects of single
neuron variability, the spiking irregularity measured by the squared coefficient of variation …

Recent experiments have established that information can be encoded in the spike times of
neurons relative to the phase of a background oscillation in the local field potential—a …

The existence and role of fine-temporal structure in the spiking activity of central neurons is
the subject of an enduring debate among physiologists. To a large extent, the problem is a …