Danko Nikolic

..Rather, these oscillations serve to concentrate neuronal discharges to particular phases of the oscillation cycle and thereby provide the substrate for various, functionally relevant synchronization phenomena...

..Among its other applications, as we show on data from cat visual cortex, the method can assist the studies of precise neuronal synchronization...

..Hence, the inducers are not defined by the modality-dependent sensations but by the "ideas" activated by these sensations...

..This result challenges models assuming frame-by-frame analyses of sequential inputs...

..Thus, while the overall oscillation frequency, across all drift directions, was state-dependent, the relative change in oscillation frequencies induced by stimulus properties was not, the tuning remaining stable...

..Thus, to faithfully encode the properties of visual stimuli the brain engages multiple neurons into activity patterns evolving on multiple timescales...

..The results support the notion that the mechanisms of surround modulation exhibit a high degree of stability and play an important role in the modulation of cortical responses...

..This suggests that, in the visual system, short-lived spatiotemporal patterns of spiking defined by consistent delays in synchronized activity occur with sufficient reliability to complement firing rates as a neuronal code...

..5ms. The results suggest that preferably, one should use CCHs with approximately 1ms binning even when investigating differences in delays considerably smaller than 1ms...

..We demonstrate, on both simulated data and single-unit activity recorded in cat visual cortex, that NeuroXidence discriminates reliably between significant and spurious events that occur by chance...

..Due to its simplicity and reliance on perceptual grouping, the method is useful for both quick on-line visualization of incoming data and for more detailed post hoc analyses...

..The results suggest that a cortical code for stimulus features that exploits time delays operates predominantly across individual neurons rather than across larger anatomical structures such as brain areas...

..Notably, there was no evidence for scale-free properties. These results suggest that cortical networks are optimized for the coexistence of local and global computations: feature detection and feature integration or binding...

..In addition, we provide a measure, termed confidence score, that determines the stability of the oscillation score estimate over trials...

..The results suggest that spontaneous activity of the visual cortex under anesthesia has the properties of neuronal avalanches...

..This suggests involvement of early stages of visual processing in color synaesthesia and explains the vivid and realistic nature of synaesthetic experiences...

..We conclude this paper with suggestions for further research as well as with critical issues that need to be addressed in future studies...

..The test can be classified as non-parametric because it takes into account only the directions of the delays and thus, does not make assumptions about the distributions and the variances of the measurement errors...

..These results support the hypothesis that visual WM serves as a gate for the storage of information into LTM...

..Perspectives for future research will be discussed in relationship to methodological issues, the utility of neural oscillations as a biomarker, and the neurodevelopmental hypothesis of schizophrenia...

..The LCD monitor seems suitable for many applications in vision research, including the studies that require combined accuracy of timing and intensity of visual stimulation...

..The method provides indispensable help in estimating the complexity of non-linear relationships within multivariate datasets...