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FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 2, Issue 1, Pages 199-207Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/neuro.01.037.2008
Keywords
local field potential; spatial resolution; gamma-band; primary visual cortex; feature selectivity
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Funding
- National Eye Institute [R01 EY018847]
- Department of Defense, USA [W81XWH-08-2-0147]
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation Young Investigator Award
- VA Merit Award
- Max Planck Society
- German Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology through the Bernstein award (BMBF) [FKZ:01GQ0601]
- NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE [R01EY018847] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Extracellular voltage fluctuations (local field potentials, LFPs) reflecting neural mass action are ubiquitous across species and brain regions. Numerous studies have characterized the properties of LFP signals in the cortex to study sensory and motor computations as well as cognitive processes like attention, perception and memory. In addition, its extracranial counterpart - the electroencephalogram - is widely used in clinical applications. However, the link between LFP signals and the underlying activity of local populations of neurons remains largely elusive. Here, we review recent work elucidating the relationship between spiking activity of local neural populations and LFP signals. We focus on oscillations in the gamma-band (30-90 Hz) of the LFP in the primary visual cortex (V1) of the macaque that dominate during visual stimulation. Given that in area V1 much is known about the properties of single neurons and the cortical architecture, it provides an excellent opportunity to study the mechanisms underlying the generation of the LFP.
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