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Paying attention to correlated neural activity

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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Figure 1: Interactions between correlations and attentional modulation as suggested by Cohen and Newsome6.

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Pouget, A., DeAngelis, G. Paying attention to correlated neural activity. Nat Neurosci 11, 1371–1372 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn1208-1371

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