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SUBMITTER: Chelaru MI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2571028 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chelaru Mircea I MI Dragoi Valentin V
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20081014 42
A ubiquitous feature of neuronal responses within a cortical area is their high degree of inhomogeneity. Even cells within the same functional column are known to have highly heterogeneous response properties when the same stimulus is presented. Whether the wide diversity of neuronal responses is an epiphenomenon or plays a role for cortical function is unknown. Here, we examined the relationship between the heterogeneity of neuronal responses and population coding. Contrary to our expectation, ...[more]