title: Neurons of the cerebral cortex exhibit precise interspike timing in correspondence to behavior.
abstract: We show that times of spikes can be very precise. In the cerebral cortex, where each nerve cell is affected by thousands of others, it is the common belief that the exact time of a spike is random up to an averaged firing rate over tens of milliseconds. In a brain slice, precise time relations of several neurons have been observed. It remained unclear whether this phenomenon can also be observed in brains of behaving animals. Here we show, in behaving monkeys, that time intervals between spikes, measured in correspondence to a specific behavior, may be controlled to within the milliseconds range.
authors.affiliation: Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel.
authors.forename: Tomer
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shmiel
authors.forename: Rotem
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Drori
authors.forename: Oren
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Shmiel
authors.forename: Yoram
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ben-Shaul
authors.forename: Zoltan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Nadasdy
authors.forename: Moshe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shemesh
authors.forename: Mina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Teicher
authors.forename: Moshe
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Abeles
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology*; D000882:Haplorhini / Q000502:physiology*; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors