TY - JOUR T1 - Precise Firing Events Are Conserved across Neurons JF - The Journal of Neuroscience JO - J. Neurosci. SP - 6837 LP - 6841 DO - 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.22-16-06837.2002 VL - 22 IS - 16 AU - Pamela Reinagel AU - R. Clay Reid Y1 - 2002/08/15 UR - http://www.jneurosci.org/content/22/16/6837.abstract N2 - 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. ER -