Maintained avalanche dynamics during task-induced changes of neuronal activity in nonhuman primates.
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PROVIDER: S-EPMC5677367 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
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Maintained avalanche dynamics during task-induced changes of neuronal activity in nonhuman primates.
Yu Shan S Ribeiro Tiago L TL Meisel Christian C Chou Samantha S Mitz Andrew A Saunders Richard R Plenz Dietmar D
eLife 20171108
Sensory events, cognitive processing and motor actions correlate with transient changes in neuronal activity. In cortex, these transients form widespread spatiotemporal patterns with largely unknown statistical regularities. Here, we show that activity associated with behavioral events carry the signature of scale-invariant spatiotemporal clusters, neuronal avalanches. Using high-density microelectrode arrays in nonhuman primates, we recorded extracellular unit activity and the local field poten ...[more]
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