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J Neurophysiol 96: 2645-2652, 2006. First published August 2, 2006; doi:10.1152/jn.00798.2005
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Temporally Precise Cortical Firing Patterns Are Associated With Distinct Action Segments

Tomer Shmiel1, Rotem Drori2, Oren Shmiel1, Yoram Ben-Shaul2, Zoltan Nadasdy3, Moshe Shemesh1, Mina Teicher1 and Moshe Abeles1,2

1Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan; 2Department of Physiology, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and 3Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

Submitted 28 July 2005; accepted in final form 1 August 2006

Despite many reports indicating the existence of precise firing sequences in cortical activity, serious objections have been raised regarding the statistics used to detect them and the relations of these sequences to behavior. We show that in behaving monkeys, pairs of spikes from different neurons tend to prefer certain time delays when measured in relation to a specific behavior. Single-unit activity was recorded from eight microelectrodes inserted into the motor and premotor cortices of two monkeys while they were performing continuous drawinglike hand movements. Repeated scribbling paths, termed drawing components, were extracted by data-mining techniques. The set of the least predictable relations between drawing components and pairs of neurons was determined and represented by one statistic termed the relations score. The chance probability of the relations score was evaluated by teetering the spike times: 1,000 surrogates were generated by randomly teetering the original time of each spike in a small window. In nine of 13 experimental days the precision was better than 12 ms and, in the best case, spike precision reached 0.5 ms.

Address for reprint requests and other correspondence: M. Abeles, Gonda Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel (E-mail: abelesm{at}mail.biu.ac.il)




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