Motolani Olarinre

• Carnegie Mellon University

The onset of a sensory stimulus elicits transient bursts of activity in neural populations, which are presumed to convey information about the stimulus to downstream populations. The time at which these synchronized bursts reach their peak is highly variable across stimulus presentations, but the relative timing of bursts across interconnected brai...

As improved recording technologies have created new opportunities for neurophysiological investigation, emphasis has shifted from individual neurons to multiple populations that form circuits, and it has become important to provide evidence of cross-population coordinated activity. We review various methods for doing so, placing them in six major c...

For many perceptual and behavioral tasks, a prominent feature of neural spike trains involves high firing rates across relatively short intervals of time. We call these events ``population bursts." Because during a population burst information is, presumably, transmitted from one part of the brain to another, burst timing should reveal activity rel...

Rhythmic oscillation in neurons can be characterized by various attributes, such as the oscillation period and duty cycle. The values of these features depend on the amplitudes of the participating ionic currents, which can be characterized by their maximum conductance values. Recent experimental and theoretical work has shown that the values of th...