Cortical circuits work through the generation of coordinated, large-scale activity patterns. In
sensory systems, the onset of a discrete stimulus usually evokes a temporally organized …

To what extent is the variability of the neuronal responses compatible with the use of spike
timing for sensory information processing by the central nervous system? In reviewing the …

We present a minimal spiking network that can polychronize, that is, exhibit reproducible
time-locked but not synchronous firing patterns with millisecond precision, as in synfire …

Neocortical assemblies produce complex activity patterns both in response to sensory
stimuli and spontaneously without sensory input. To investigate the structure of these …

Even in the absence of sensory stimulation, the neocortex shows complex spontaneous
activity patterns, often consisting of alternating “DOWN” states of generalized neural silence …

A neuronal network inspired by the anatomy of the cerebral cortex was simulated to study
the self-organization of spiking neurons into neuronal groups. The network consisted of 100 …

Although temporal coding is a frequent topic of neurophysiology research, trial-to-trial
variability in temporal codes is typically dismissed as noise and thought to play no role in …

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 …

It has been proposed that cortical neurons organize dynamically into functional groups (cell
assemblies) by the temporal structure of their joint spiking activity. Here, we describe a novel …

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 …