@article {Reinagel6837, author = {Pamela Reinagel and R. Clay Reid}, title = {Precise Firing Events Are Conserved across Neurons}, volume = {22}, number = {16}, pages = {6837--6841}, year = {2002}, doi = {10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-16-06837.2002}, publisher = {Society for Neuroscience}, abstract = {Sensory neurons can respond to dynamic stimuli with temporally precise firing events. In the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) of the thalamus, we found previously that when a flickering visual stimulus was repeated, individual cells fired action potentials at the same time in every trial to within 1 msec. We now show that these precise firing events are also reproducible across cells of the same class. Therefore, the mechanisms for producing precise timing must be conserved within a cell class. Our results further suggest that cortical neurons would require only a few generic processing mechanisms to extract the fine temporal information available in their LGN inputs.}, issn = {0270-6474}, URL = {https://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/16/6837}, eprint = {https://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/16/6837.full.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Neuroscience} }