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Nature Neuroscience 11, 1262 - 1263 (2008)
Published online: 12 October 2008 | doi:10.1038/nn.2211
Millisecond-scale differences in neural activity in auditory cortex can drive decisions
Yang Yang1,2, Michael R DeWeese1,3, Gonzalo H Otazu1 & Anthony M Zador1
Neurons in the auditory cortex can lock to the fine timing of acoustic stimuli with millisecond precision, but it is not known whether this precise spike timing can be used to guide decisions. We used chronically implanted microelectrode pairs to stimulate neurons in the rat auditory cortex directly and found that rats can exploit differences in the timing of cortical activity that are as short as 3 ms to guide decisions.
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1 Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 11724, USA.
- Program in Neuroscience, SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York 11794–5230, USA.
- Physics Department and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California at Berkeley, 132 Barker Hall, #3190, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
Correspondence to: Anthony M Zador1 e-mail: zador@cshl.edu
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