Article Information
- Received August 2, 2011
- Revision received October 21, 2011
- Accepted November 25, 2011
- First published January 25, 2012.
- Version of record published January 25, 2012.
Author Information
- Cesare Magri1,2,*,
- Ulrich Schridde1,*,
- Yusuke Murayama1,
- Stefano Panzeri3,4, and
- Nikos K. Logothetis1,5
- 1Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 72076 Tübingen, Germany,
- 2Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Tübingen, Germany,
- 3Italian Institute of Technology, Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 16163 Genova, Italy,
- 4Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QB, United Kingdom, and
- 5Imaging Science and Biomedical Engineering, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom
Author contributions
Author contributions: C.M., U.S., S.P., and N.K.L. designed research; C.M., U.S., and Y.M. performed research; C.M. and S.P. contributed unpublished reagents/analytic tools; C.M., U.S., and S.P. analyzed data; C.M., U.S., Y.M., S.P., and N.K.L. wrote the paper.
↵*C.M. and U.S. contributed equally to the work.
Disclosures
- Received August 2, 2011.
- Revision received October 21, 2011.
- Accepted November 25, 2011.
This research was supported by the Max Planck Society, by the Neural Computation project of the Italian Institute of Technology, by the Compagnia di San Paolo, and was part of the research program of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (FKZ: 01GQ1002). We thank M. Augath for help with experiments; A. Oeltermann for developing the laminar electrode and data acquisition hardware; and M. Lindig and D. Ipek for preparing and maintaining animal anesthesia.
- Correspondence should be addressed to Cesare Magri, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, 38 Spemanstrasse, 72076 Tübingen, Germany. cesare.magri{at}tuebingen.mpg.de
