Synergy in Cortical Networks

Reece Mazade; Jose Manuel Alonso

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2019.09.041

Synergy in Cortical Networks

Neuron. 2019 Oct 23;104(2):184-185. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.09.041.

Authors

Reece Mazade¹, Jose Manuel Alonso²

Affiliations

¹ State University of New York, College of Optometry, New York, NY 10036, USA.
² State University of New York, College of Optometry, New York, NY 10036, USA. Electronic address: jalonso@sunyopt.edu.

PMID: 31647891
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.09.041

Abstract

A dot in this text can simultaneously stimulate thousands of neurons in primary visual cortex, a response that may seem unnecessarily redundant. Contrary to such a view, in this issue of Neuron, Nigam et al. (2019) demonstrate that these co-activated neurons generate abundant synergistic interactions that help to decode the stimulus.

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MeSH terms

Neurons
Visual Cortex*