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Spontaneous activity of auditory cortical neurons of waking cats at rest and during defensive conditioning

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The results of a computerized statistical analysis of 366 realizations of spontaneous spike activity of 181 neurons in the primary auditory cortex (area 50) of waking cats at rest and during defensive conditioning are described. In both situations the parameters of spontaneous activity of most neurons differed from those of a random flow. Conditioning led, on the one hand, to a stable increase in the frequency of spontaneous activity in intertrial periods and, on the other hand, judging from changes in the mean firing rate, the coefficients of variation of the length of the interspike intervals, the histograms of their distribution, and also the increase in the number of neurons with different forms of correlation between interspike intervals, to an increase in its stability (degree of organization).

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A. A. Bogomolets Institute of Physiology, Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev. Translated from Neirofiziologiya, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 227–238, May–June, 1978.

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Dumenko, V.N., Sachenko, V.V. Spontaneous activity of auditory cortical neurons of waking cats at rest and during defensive conditioning. Neurophysiology 10, 159–168 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01074399

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