Reduced variability of ongoing and evoked cortical activity leads to improved behavioral performance.

Sensory responses of the brain are known to be highly variable, but the origin and functional relevance of this variability have long remained enigmatic. Using the variable foreperiod of a visual discrimination task to assess variability in the primate cerebral cortex, we report that visual evoked r...

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Main Authors: Anders Ledberg, Anna Montagnini, Richard Coppola, Steven L Bressler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3427304?pdf=render