Phase coding: spikes get a boost from local fields.
The brain exhibits coherent, long-range oscillations, and it now appears that these oscillations play a substantial role in neural coding: they can boost the information contained in action potentials by as much as 50%.
Latham
Peter E
PE
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, London, UK. pel@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk
Lengyel
Máté
M
D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D000818:Animals; D001683:Biological Clocks / Q000502:physiology*; D008251:Macaca; D014793:Visual Cortex / Q000502:physiology*