%0 Journal Article %A Pamela Reinagel %A R. Clay Reid %T Precise Firing Events Are Conserved across Neurons %D 2002 %R 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-16-06837.2002 %J The Journal of Neuroscience %P 6837-6841 %V 22 %N 16 %X 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. %U https://www.jneurosci.org/content/jneuro/22/16/6837.full.pdf