To successfully read and understand words one has to master several complex processes. A competent reader not only needs to recognize single letters, he or she must also have knowledge about how these letters are legally combined to larger orthographic units (orthographic processing), how to map these units to sounds (phonological processing) and to associate […]
Monatsarchiv für June 2012
Stimulus onset quenches neural variability: a widespread cortical phenomenon
This article focuses on one of the basic properties of the cortical network that is widely considered as noise and mostly averaged out during the experimentation. The neural response is incompletely characterized without focusing on the ongoing activity that apparently gives rise to variable responses to the same stimulus situation. The across-trial membrane potential (Vm) […]
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