PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Pamela Reinagel AU - R. Clay Reid TI - Precise Firing Events Are Conserved across Neurons AID - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-16-06837.2002 DP - 2002 Aug 15 TA - The Journal of Neuroscience PG - 6837--6841 VI - 22 IP - 16 4099 - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/16/6837.short 4100 - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/16/6837.full SO - J. Neurosci.2002 Aug 15; 22 AB - 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.