Synchronous Spikes Are More Effective (but Not for Long).
The efficacy of spiking synchrony in corticocortical communication is poorly understood. A new study (Zandvakili and Kohn, 2015) in this issue provides compelling evidence that synchrony in a source population is not efficacious beyond the input layers of the target population.
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, 49 Convent Drive, 2A50 Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; Brown-NIH Neuroscience Graduate Partnership Program, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA. Electronic address: adrian.bondy@gmail.com.
Adrian
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Bondy
Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, 49 Convent Drive, 2A50 Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Bruce
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Cumming
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