Spontaneous and driven cortical activity: implications for computation Export

@article{citeulike:5369440, abstract = {The traditional view of spontaneous neural activity as 'noise' has been challenged by recent findings suggesting that: (a) spontaneous activity in cortical populations is highly structured in both space and time, (b) the spatio-temporal structure of spontaneous activity is linked to the underlying connectivity of the cortical network, (c) spontaneous cortical activity interacts with external stimulation to generate responses to the individual presentations of a stimulus, (d) network connectivity is shaped in part by the statistics of natural signals and (e) ongoing cortical activity represents a continuous top-down prediction/expectation signal that interacts with incoming input to generate an updated representation of the world. These results can be integrated to provide a new framework for the study of cortical computation.}, author = {Ringach, Dario L.}, citeulike-article-id = {5369440}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2009.07.005}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0959438809000786}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19647992}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19647992}, day = {31}, doi = {10.1016/j.conb.2009.07.005}, issn = {09594388}, journal = {Current Opinion in Neurobiology}, keywords = {review, sponta}, month = {August}, number = {4}, pages = {439--444}, posted-at = {2009-08-05 08:30:33}, priority = {2}, title = {Spontaneous and driven cortical activity: implications for computation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2009.07.005}, volume = {19}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5369440 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5369440 N2 - The traditional view of spontaneous neural activity as 'noise' has been challenged by recent findings suggesting that: (a) spontaneous activity in cortical populations is highly structured in both space and time, (b) the spatio-temporal structure of spontaneous activity is linked to the underlying connectivity of the cortical network, (c) spontaneous cortical activity interacts with external stimulation to generate responses to the individual presentations of a stimulus, (d) network connectivity is shaped in part by the statistics of natural signals and (e) ongoing cortical activity represents a continuous top-down prediction/expectation signal that interacts with incoming input to generate an updated representation of the world. These results can be integrated to provide a new framework for the study of cortical computation. IS - 4 JF - Current Opinion in Neurobiology SN - 09594388 EP - 444 TI - Spontaneous and driven cortical activity: implications for computation VL - 19 SP - 439 KW - review KW - sponta AU - Ringach, Dario PY - 2009/08/31/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2009.07.005 ER -