Neuronal sequences in population bursts encode information in human cortex.

ABSTRACT: Neural coding has traditionally been examined through changes in firing rates and latencies in response to different stimuli^1-5. However, populations of neurons can also exhibit transient bursts of spiking activity, wherein neurons fire in a specific temporal order or sequence^6-8. The human brain may utilize these neuronal sequences within population bursts to efficiently represent information^9-12, thereby complementing the well-known neural code based on spike rate or latency. Here we examined this possibility by recording the spiking activity of populations of single units in the human anterior temporal lobe as eight participants performed a visual categorization task. We find that population spiking activity organizes into bursts during the task. The tem

SUBMITTER: Xie W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12279075 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature