Processing Timescales as an Organizing Principle for Primate Cortex

Janice Chen; Uri Hasson; Christopher J Honey

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.10.010

Processing Timescales as an Organizing Principle for Primate Cortex

Neuron. 2015 Oct 21;88(2):244-6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.10.010.

Authors

Janice Chen¹, Uri Hasson², Christopher J Honey³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1010, USA.
² Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544-1010, USA. Electronic address: hasson@princeton.edu.
³ Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3, Canada.

PMID: 26494274
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2015.10.010

Abstract

An emerging view posits a timescale-based cortical topography, with integration windows increasing from sensory to association areas. In this issue, Chaudhuri et al. (2015) present a cortical model wherein a hierarchy of timescales arises from local and inter-regional circuit dynamics.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Models, Neurological*
Neocortex / physiology*
Nerve Net / physiology*