Stimulus onset quenches neural variability: a widespread cortical phenomenon

Churchland, Mark M, Yu, Byron M, Cunningham, John P, Sugrue, Leo P, Cohen, Marlene R, Corrado, Greg S, Newsome, William T, Clark, Andrew M, Hosseini, Paymon, Scott, Benjamin B, Bradley, David C, Smith, Matthew A, Kohn, Adam, Movshon, J Anthony, Armstrong, Katherine M, Moore, Tirin, Chang, Steve W, Snyder, Lawrence H, Lisberger, Stephen G, Priebe, Nicholas J, Finn, Ian M, Ferster, David, Ryu, Stephen I, Santhanam, Gopal, Sahani, Maneesh, Shenoy, Krishna V·2010·Nature Neuroscience
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