Spontaneous and driven cortical activity: implications for computation.
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The traditional view of spontaneous neural activity as 'noise' has been challenged by recent findings suggesting that: (a) spontaneous activity in cortical populations is highly structured in both space and time, (b) the spatio-temporal structure of spontaneous activity is linked to the underlying connectivity of the cortical network, (c) spontaneous cortical activity interacts with external stimulation to generate responses to the individual presentations of a stimulus, (d) network connectivity is shaped in part by the statistics of natural signals and (e) ongoing cortical activity represents a continuous top-down prediction/expectation signal that interacts with incoming input to generate an updated representation of the world. These results can be integrated to provide a new framework for the study of cortical computation.
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External stimuli only modulate the highly stochastic spontaneous firing activity of cortical networks of neurons.
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- Authors
- Ringach, D. L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Corresponding author
- Ringach, Dario L
- ORCID
- Ringach, Dario L
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Neurobiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-08
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 439-444
- ISSN
- 0959-4388 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3319344
- OpenAlex
- W2148439693
- Cited by
- 234
- References
- 50
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 16 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 29 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 13 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 15 · 2015: 17 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 13 · 2012: 16
- FWCI
- 0.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Neurobiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Eye Institute (R01EY018322, EY-12816, EY18322, R01EY012816)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- spontaneous neuronal activity, cortical activity, cortical connectivity, spatiotemporal structure, top-down prediction, expectations, cortical computation, noise
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cerebral Cortex, Models, Neurological, Nerve Net, Neurons, Photic Stimulation, Visual Perception, Neural Networks, Computer
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