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Nature Neuroscience 12, 10 - 11 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nn0109-10

Spikes are making waves in the visual cortex

Harvey A Swadlow1 & Jose-Manuel Alonso2

  1. Harvey Swadlow is at the Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06250, USA.
  2. Jose-Manuel Alonso is at the Department of Biological Sciences, State University of New York, 33 West 42nd Street, New York, New York 10036, USA. e-mail: harvey.swadlow@uconn.edu or e-mail: jalonso@sunyopt.edu


Cortical and thalamic contribution to V1 neuron response properties is thought to be fixed. New work overturns this assumption, showing that the spread of corticocortical activation can be strongly modulated by stimulus strength.

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