Cortical response states for enhanced sensory discrimination
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Cortical response states for enhanced sensory discrimination
Brain activity during wakefulness is characterized by rapid fluctuations in neuronal responses. Whether these fluctuations play any role in modulating the accuracy of behavioral responses is poorly understood. Here, we investigated whether and how trial changes in the population response impact sensory coding in monkey V1 and perceptual performance. Although the responses of individual neurons ...
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عنوان ژورنال: eLife
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2050-084X
DOI: 10.7554/elife.29226