Nature Communications (Oct 2017)

Spatiotemporal dynamics of information encoding revealed in orbitofrontal high-gamma

  • Erin L. Rich,
  • Joni D. Wallis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01253-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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High gamma activity (HGA) and local neurons encode similar information, but it’s unclear if this is true when neurons are heterogeneous, as in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). Here, Rich & Wallis show that HGA in OFC is closely related to neuron firing, but reveals clearer spatiotemporal dynamics.