Temporal Aspects of Information Processing in Areas V1 and V2 of the Macaque Monkey

In mammals, the neocortex devoted to each sensory modality is subdivided into a number of functional areas. Each of these areas contains a more or less complete representation of the sensory surface and is connected to numerous other cortical areas of the same modality. As a consequence, a sensory stimulus activates neurons in several of these interconnected cortical areas. One of the present challenges of sensory physiology is to discover how information concerning a given object in the external world is integrated between its representations in the different cortical areas. In particular, it is important to associate a common tag to the neurons coding for the same stimulus and which are distributed in different cortical areas. Early theoretical studies (Milner, 1974; von der Malsburg and Schneider, 1986; Abeles, 1982) suggested that neurons activated by the same stimulus could be bound together by synchronization of the time of occurence of their action potentials.

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