First spikes in visual cortex enable perceptual discrimination

Visually guided perceptual decisions involve the sequential activation of a hierarchy of cortical areas. It has been hypothesized that a brief time window of activity in each area is sufficient to enable the decision but direct measurements of this time window are lacking. To address this question,...

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Main Authors: Arbora Resulaj, Sarah Ruediger, Shawn R Olsen, Massimo Scanziani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2018-04-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/34044