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Nature Neuroscience 11, 1371 - 1372 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nn1208-1371
Paying attention to correlated neural activity
Alexandre Pouget1 & Gregory C DeAngelis1
- The authors are at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, 402 Meliora Hall, Rochester, New York 14627, USA. e-mail: alex@cvs.rochester.edu
Abstract
Correlations in firing rate between pairs of neurons can change depending on task and attentional demands. This new finding suggests that measuring correlations can help to reveal how neural circuits process information.
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