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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136409003321

Autore

Tatjana Tchumatchenko

Titolo

Correlated neuronal activity and its relationship to coding, dynamics and network architecture [[electronic resource] /] / topic  editors Robert Rosenbaum, Tatjana Tchumatchenko and RubeĢn Moreno-Bote

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2014

France : , : Frontiers Media SA, , 2014

ISBN

9782889193578 (ebook)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages) : illustrations, charts

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Neurons

Brain function

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Correlated activity in populations of neurons has been observed in many brain regions and plays a central role in cortical coding, attention, and network dynamics. Accurately quantifying neuronal correlations presents several difficulties. For example, despite recent advances in multicellular recording techniques, the number of neurons from which spiking activity can be simultaneously recorded remains orders magnitude smaller than the size of local networks. In addition, there is a lack of consensus on the distribution of pairwise spike cross correlations obtained in extracellular multi-unit recordings. These challenges highlight the need for theoretical and computational approaches to understand how correlations emerge and to decipher their functional role in the brain.