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SUBMITTER: Russo E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5226654 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Russo Eleonora E Durstewitz Daniel D
eLife 20170111
Hebb's idea of a cell assembly as the fundamental unit of neural information processing has dominated neuroscience like no other theoretical concept within the past 60 years. A range of different physiological phenomena, from precisely synchronized spiking to broadly simultaneous rate increases, has been subsumed under this term. Yet progress in this area is hampered by the lack of statistical tools that would enable to extract assemblies with arbitrary constellations of time lags, and at multip ...[more]