Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Self-motion evokes precise spike timing in the primate vestibular system

  • Mohsen Jamali,
  • Maurice J. Chacron,
  • Kathleen E. Cullen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13229
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Early vestibular pathways are thought to code sensory inputs regarding self-motion via changes in firing rate. Here, the authors record from both regular and irregular afferents in macaques, and find both irregular afferents and central neurons also represent self-motion via temporally precise spike timing.