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Synchronized spike activity is discussed as a possible representational code for object integration and as a neuronal basis of attention, perception and awareness. As a byproduct of experiments in which monkeys were trained to detect simple figures composed of single Gabor patches in a noisy background of similar elements, we found in special cases increased spike synchrony above chance level specifically related to figure detection. The long latency of this effect is difficult to interpret. It may be a sign of the cognitive state of an animal when it perceives the figure.
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Bauer, R., Heinze, S. Inter-cellular spike coincidences in visual detection tasks. Naturwissenschaften 89, 316–318 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-002-0333-z
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-002-0333-z