title: Gamma oscillations: precise temporal coordination without a metronome.
abstract: Gamma oscillations in the brain should not be conceptualized as a sine wave with constant oscillation frequency. 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurophysiology, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Deutschordenstrasse 46, D-60528 Frankfurt/M, Germany. danko.nikolic@gmail.com
authors.forename: Danko
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nikolić
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fries
authors.forename: Wolf
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Singer
mesh_terms: D000200:Action Potentials / Q000502:physiology; D001683:Biological Clocks / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*