title: The Importance of Single-Trial Analyses in Cognitive Neuroscience.
abstract: Theories of working memory typically assume that information is maintained via persistent neural activity. By contrast, Lundqvist et al. report that single-trial delay activity is actually 'bursty'; the classic profile of persistent activity is an artefact of trial-wise averaging. Tackling brain-behaviour relationships at the single-trial level is an important future direction for cognitive neuroscience.
authors.affiliation: University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Electronic address: mark.stokes@ohba.ox.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stokes
authors.affiliation: University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Eelke
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Spaak
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D000066494:Cognitive Neuroscience; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term